{"id":1410179,"date":"2017-03-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=847a76ffab9a8a0f02bc5f01d785a2e8"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:00","slug":"equinox-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/equinox-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinox Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight is the last night of winter! Doubtless these two raccoons I saw sitting in a tree last week looking down on snow-covered Central Park in New York City, will welcome the warmer season.<\/p>\n

Here’s my favorite welcome spring poem “When the Hounds of Spring” by Algernon Charles Swinburne:<\/p>\n

For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
\nAnd all the season of snows and sins;
\nThe days dividing lover and lover,
\nThe light that loses, the night that wins;
\nAnd time remember’d is grief forgotten,
\nAnd frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
\nAnd in the green underwood and over
\nBlossom by blossom the spring begins.<\/p>\n

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Tonight is the last night of winter! Doubtless these two raccoons I saw sitting in a tree last week looking down on snow-covered Central Park in New York City, will welcome the warmer season. Here’s my favorite welcome spring poem “When the Hounds of Spring” by Algernon Charles Swinburne: For winter’s rains and ruins are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2148633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5735,41],"class_list":["post-1410179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-new-york","tag-raccoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}