{"id":190900,"date":"2020-02-02T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190900"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:27:43","slug":"philsays-early-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190900","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Punxsutawney Phil&#8221;says, Early Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-93672\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Punxsutawney-Phil-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Punxsutawney-Phil-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Punxsutawney-Phil-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Punxsutawney-Phil.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP)\u00a0\u00a0 Pennsylvania&#8217;s most famous groundhog has revealed an early spring is on the way. At sunrise on Sunday, members of Punxsutawney Phil&#8217;s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the furry forecaster&#8217;s prediction. The annual event has its origin in a German legend that says if a furry rodent casts a shadow on Feb. 2, winter continues. If not, spring comes early. In reality, Phil&#8217;s prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobbler&#8217;s Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney. That&#8217;s about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0\u00a0 Pennsylvania&#8217;s most famous groundhog has revealed an early spring is on the way. At sunrise on Sunday, members of Punxsutawney Phil&#8217;s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the furry forecaster&#8217;s prediction. The annual event has its origin in a German legend that says if a furry rodent casts a shadow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-weathernews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190934,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190900\/revisions\/190934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}