{"id":16182,"date":"2012-03-30T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2012-03-30T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:56:11","slug":"signs-of-spring-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/30\/signs-of-spring-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of spring, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I pointed you, my dear reader, to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/\"> Big Picture blog<\/a>. \u00a0I had to catch up with it myself. \u00a0While browsing through the horrible pictures of refugees and natural disasters, all of which are very sad and\u00a0pessimistic, I came across a beautiful collection of images that capture the signs of this year&#8217;s spring coming. \u00a0It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2012\/03\/signs_of_spring_2012.html\">these images<\/a> &#8211; peaceful, beautiful, breathtaking &#8211; that I want to share with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/30\/signs-of-spring-2012\/signs-of-spring-2012\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012.jpg?fit=990%2C660&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"990,660\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Signs of spring 2012\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012.jpg?fit=660%2C440&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16183\" title=\"Signs of spring 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Signs-of-spring-2012.jpg?w=990&amp;ssl=1 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I pointed you, my dear reader, to the Big Picture blog. \u00a0I had to catch up with it myself. \u00a0While browsing through the horrible pictures of refugees and natural disasters, all of which are very sad and\u00a0pessimistic, I came across a beautiful collection of images that capture the signs of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/30\/signs-of-spring-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Signs of spring, 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[1336,841],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-inspiration","tag-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9132,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/21\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":16182,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-06-21 Moscow Graffiti Tagged as: art gallery graffitti images moscow russia swanksigns - dedicated to the art of mocking public works - beta Tagged as: driving fun gallery humor images signs traffic world","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10300,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/03\/graffiti\/","url_meta":{"origin":16182,"position":1},"title":"Graffiti","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"One other thing that I've noticed different from Russia of ten years ago and Cyprus of current days is graffiti. 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