Eighteen days she has been confined to her lair by January\u2019s wintry wizard, but today she will be emancipated.\u00a0 Even now her nose is nuzzled against the cold restraint of the tracked barrier.\u00a0 She leans impatiently upon one elbow, but in her mind she is dancing, swaying side to side through twisting pathways; sometimes smoothly and gently, sometimes almost violently with rapid force.\u00a0 In her mind she leaps into flight screaming over the concrete track and roaring her dominant disregard for all that would gaze in her direction.\u00a0 As soon as the frost recedes she will bound into the sunlight again and gleefully gambol about the world outside her darkened dungeon.\u00a0 Could today be the end of her winter imprisonment?\u00a0 Could this day herald the first distant calls of an approaching spring?\u00a0 Her large eye blinks and twinkles with anticipation.\u00a0 Let the ice be gone and beckon the haste of a springtime sun.\u00a0 This Dragon will not wait upon the groundhog.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s ride.\u00a0 PMS is but for a night.\u00a0 Joy comes with the rising sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eighteen days she has been confined to her lair by January\u2019s wintry wizard, but today she will be emancipated.\u00a0 Even now her nose is nuzzled against the cold restraint of the tracked barrier.\u00a0 She leans impatiently upon one elbow, but …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowinthewind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}