{"id":76701,"date":"2014-03-21T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=76701"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:17","slug":"bob-muldoon-81-spring-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/21\/bob-muldoon-81-spring-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"For Bob Muldoon &#8217;81, the first sign of spring isn&#8217;t a bird or bud. It&#8217;s a butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The game is afoot,&#8221; writes Bob Muldoon &#8217;81 in his<em> Boston Globe<\/em> essay about his annual quest for the first sign of spring.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76767\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/mourning-cloak-butterfly-0_d349708da5_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76767\" alt=\"Mourning cloak butterfly. (CC license: Jamie Jones \/ USFWS)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/mourning-cloak-butterfly-0_d349708da5_k-600x399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/mourning-cloak-butterfly-0_d349708da5_k-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/mourning-cloak-butterfly-0_d349708da5_k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/mourning-cloak-butterfly-0_d349708da5_k.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning cloak butterfly. (CC license: Jamie Jones \/ USFWS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Each year in March, as gray winter shuffles off stage, and colorful spring waits in the wings, I hold my own private competition: to spot the year\u2019s first butterfly. Aye, for many the robin is the harbinger of spring, but for me &#8217;tis the mourning cloak. For you the bird, for me the butterfly!&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2014\/03\/18\/the-first-sign-spring\/BGbne9nL8MqItJzhkiK2jL\/story.html\">View essay from <em>The Boston Globe,<\/em> March 18, 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in The Boston Globe, Muldoon describes his personal quest for the first sign of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":76767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,44,11009],"tags":[11051,10359],"class_list":["post-76701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-enewsletter","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-bob-muldoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions\/76769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}