{"id":3808,"date":"2013-03-31T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:48:26","slug":"easter-and-the-hope-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2013\/03\/easter-and-the-hope-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter and the Hope of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter dawned across the beautiful marshes of the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County, Maryland, where I spent the weekend enjoying the rising life of early spring.\u00a0 In the Christian faith we celebrate the Resurrection at at time of year when hope abounds with the return of spring.\u00a0 The rhythms of nature tells us that no matter how long the winter or chilly the season, life rebounds and new generations are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>On the Eastern shore, the osprey are returning and already building nests for the new crop of hatchlings.\u00a0 Eagles nests abound high up in the loblolly pines.\u00a0 Great white herons cast their regal yellow eyes on all &#8212; when not lunching for fish.\u00a0 Ducks are everywhere &#8212; northern shovelers, mallards, wood ducks, scaups, and even a surf scoter or two.\u00a0 Turtles turned out in great cascades down the marsh banks when the sun came out late Saturday, and even groundhogs dared to pop up before scooting back into their burrows.\u00a0\u00a0 Cardinals, bluebirds, red-winged blackbirds, northern flickers, blue jays, finches, wrens and sparrows all seemed happy with the return of warm afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this brief ode to the joy of spring:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Easter at Blackwater NWR 2013\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uT3QWnYwh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter symbols of hope and joy, spring is coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[688,9],"tags":[78,155,637,495],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-issues","category-celebration","tag-blackwater-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-easter","tag-spring","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}