{"id":73,"date":"2008-02-21T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-02-21T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T21:40:22","slug":"6-things-to-love-about-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/6-things-to-love-about-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things to Love about Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/snowflakes.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Snowflake\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/snowflakes.jpg?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Snowflake\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Sure, it&#8217;s cold and miserable outside and it takes an extra 15 minutes to leave the house by the time you pull on hats and mittens and boots and coat and you&#8217;re beginning to think the color green is a figment of your imagination, but there are <em>lots<\/em> of reasons to love winter! Well ok, six reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1. Indulge in favorite comfort foods &#8211; soups, sandwiches, casseroles. Check out the 641.5 section for cookbooks at the library.<\/p>\n<p>2. Catch up on all those movies and television shows you&#8217;ve missed &#8211; the library has a huge selection and they&#8217;re free!<\/p>\n<p>3. Plan your perfect garden &#8211; vegetable gardening books can be found in the 635 call number area and landscaping is in the 712s.<\/p>\n<p>4. Embrace the season &#8211; try a new sport like snow shoeing or cross-country skiing. The library has sports how-to books in the 796 area that will help keep you upright.<\/p>\n<p>5. Visit one of our city&#8217;s fabulous museums &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figgeartmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Figge<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.putnam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Putnum<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivermusicexperience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Music Experience<\/a> are just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvr.usace.army.mil\/missriver\/bedweb\/BEW2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Eagle watching<\/a>. Cold weather brings the eagles to the open water of the Mississippi River, giving us a front row seat to one of nature&#8217;s most spectacular shows.<\/p>\n<p>See? Not too shabby. Keep yourself occupied with something fun and the next thing you know &#8211; it&#8217;ll be spring!<\/p>\n<p>What about you &#8211; what do you do to keep up your spirits through the last days of winter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s cold and miserable outside and it takes an extra 15 minutes to leave the house by the time you pull on hats and mittens and boots and coat and you&#8217;re beginning to think the color green is a figment of your imagination, but there are lots of reasons<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/6-things-to-love-about-winter\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-websites","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}