{"id":1949,"date":"2013-03-20T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:41:36","slug":"celebrating-springs-arrival-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/03\/20\/celebrating-springs-arrival-in-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating spring\u2019s arrival in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shane McNeery, 5, of Ross Township (Photo by Morris Berman, Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Swinging into spring, April 11, 1991 (Photo by Terry Harris, Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Young lovers spring, February 11, 1969 (Photo by William Levis, Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Punxsutawney Phil, the King of the Groundhogs, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, Weather Prophet without Peer,\u00a0<\/span>obviously made a bad call this year about the early arrival of spring, as many of our readers have noted<\/span>. According to the calendar, today, March 20, 2013, is the first official day of spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

So in anticipation of warm and sunny weather, which is supposed to set in at some point soon (we hope you are singing \u201cHere comes the sun\u2026\u201d in your head), we are featuring spring photos from the past discovered in our archives in a folder titled \u201cSpring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading off, we have<\/span>\u00a0a feature photograph from March 14, 1957, of a married couple from Squirrel Hill playing softball in Schenley Park with their dog Chappy. \u201cThe husband does the pitching,\u201d the caption on the back of the photograph said, \u201cMrs. swings and misses and Chappy does the catching \u2014 only trouble is Chappy doesn\u2019t want to give up the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up is a photo<\/span>\u00a0from April, 1977, of Shane McNemry, 5, of Ross, who \u201chad to wear a warm hat and jacket to enjoy the spring daffodils in Point State Park. Spring has been playing hide and seek this year,\u201d the caption read.<\/p>\n

Batting third, a swinging photo of Helen Ruffolo of Hazelwood and her children Shane, 5, and Mollie, 2, taken at Schenley Overlook.<\/p>\n

And batting clean up, a romantic photo from 1969, taken long before the spring flowers bloomed. The caption for this photo in the Post Gazette read: \u201cNot spring yet, but\u2026 some mild February weather has led young lovers to enact scenes of love and romance outdoors before the customary season for such goings-on. Or as the poet said, \u2018when winter comes, can spring be far behind?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There is nothing new under the sun. The hide and seek game continues. We know. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long, cold lonely winter<\/a>.\u201d And we still are waiting for spring to arrive, for real this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the calendar, today, March 20, 2013, is the first official day of spring.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesCelebrating spring\u2019s arrival in Pittsburgh<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[961,972,989,990,996,1014,1230,1031,1052],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tumblr_mjxtck8WXd1rr5swxo4_1280.jpg?fit=1117%2C1690&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2170,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/02\/people-board-buses-and-trolleys-at-smithfield-and-forbes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1949,"position":0},"title":"People board buses and trolleys at Smithfield and Forbes","date":"January 2, 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