{"id":770,"date":"2008-02-11T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T06:30:12","slug":"heres-hoping-the-goose-hangs-high-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s hoping &#8216;the goose hangs high&#8217; this Thursday for Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>O Western wind, when wilt thou blow,\/ That the small rains down can rain?\/ Christ, that my love were in my arms\/ And I in my bed again.<\/strong> Anonymous, circa 1530<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image769\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/100_2346_1.jpg\" alt=\"100_2346_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/strong> from a flock of Canada geese and from SparselySageAndTimely.com (or WestMarinNews.com for those of you using the URL that&#8217;s easier to type). This photo, which I post annually for Valentine&#8217;s Day, was shot from my deck. Inverness Ridge is in the background.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of West Marin&#8217;s lovers, let&#8217;s hope <em>the goose hangs high<\/em> this Thursday. That odd-sounding expression, which was more common a century ago, means <em>everything is wonderful<\/em>, presumably because geese fly higher in good weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Western wind, when wilt thou blow,\/ That the small rains down can rain?\/ Christ, that my love were in my arms\/ And I in my bed again. Anonymous, circa 1530 . Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! from a flock of Canada geese and from SparselySageAndTimely.com (or WestMarinNews.com for those of you using the URL that&#8217;s easier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-marin-nature","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39930,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/39930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}