{"id":5917,"date":"2014-03-25T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T10:58:57","slug":"first-rain-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/25\/first-rain-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Rain of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140325_130205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5918\" alt=\"20140325_130205\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140325_130205-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140325_130205-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140325_130205.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It started to rain just after 1pm and we ended up with 8.2mm when it stopped in the early evening. \u00a0 \u00a0Although our rain shadow is obvious on the radar &#8211; we ended up with much the same as Busselton and Margaret River with only Cape Naturaliste recording 12mm. \u00a0 These first rains have come a couple of weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/relief\/\">later than last year<\/a>, and I am sure this 8mm will be enough to germinate the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/here-comes-the-capeweed\/\">cape weed<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/winter-grass\/\">winter grass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bigraishadow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5919 alignleft\" alt=\"bigraishadow\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bigraishadow-272x300.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bigraishadow-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bigraishadow.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started to rain just after 1pm and we ended up with 8.2mm when it stopped in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140325_130205.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}