{"id":799,"date":"2006-10-12T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2006-10-12T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T03:47:59","slug":"the-old-flower-bed-has-been-made-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/10\/the-old-flower-bed-has-been-made-new\/","title":{"rendered":"The old flower bed has been made new"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/murphy_pics\/268264323\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/111\/268264323_d3ad4d2ab7.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/murphy_pics\/268264323\/\">The old flower bed<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/murphy_pics\/\">murphy_h2001<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\nThis is a photo of the flowerbed along the front of my house.<\/p>\n<p>The far left climbing plant is a pink jasmine. The far right climbing plant is a yellow rose plant.<\/p>\n<p>The middle plant is a camellia.<\/p>\n<p>The other two plants are an eyesore, and I have been wishing them gone. I gave them a year to impress me; they&#8217;ve had their chance. <\/p>\n<p>They flowered once, but the short lived glory of the bloom ended and left only an ugly denuded stalk. They had to go.<\/p>\n<p>So, I found a plant sale. They sold me two hisbiscuses and two english lavenders. <\/p>\n<p>As you see below, I pulled out the ugly plants and put in the pretty ones.<\/p>\n<p>I left the camellia, even though it has not impressed me much. it is a slow grower, and doesn&#8217;t bloom very much. But the leaves are green, and it&#8217;s not dying. Camellias can be pretty. <\/p>\n<p>All the plants in the front bed now are herbs. That pleases me. And I hope they grow and become verdant and blooming.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how things turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old flower bed, originally uploaded by murphy_h2001. This is a photo of the flowerbed along the front of my house. The far left climbing plant is a pink jasmine. The far right climbing plant is a yellow rose plant. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/10\/the-old-flower-bed-has-been-made-new\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/10\/the-old-flower-bed-has-been-made-new\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}