{"id":1256,"date":"2006-11-28T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:38:09","slug":"poinsettias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Poinsettias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/PB270112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/PB270112-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I went to the garden center around the corner today looking for a rosemary topiary.  There was just one left and it was already half way to dead so I left it there.  There were plenty of poinsettias though.  I left them there too.  I like them well enough when they&#8217;re massed together like in this pic, but one or two of them don&#8217;t look like much.  Plus, if I bought them now they&#8217;d be wilting and making a mess well before the holidays arrive.  Does anyone like these plants?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The house could use some sprucing up to help us get in the spirit, but today wasn&#8217;t the day to be shopping for wreaths and garlands &#8211; it was sixty degrees here! That didn&#8217;t seem to stop many of the folks I saw today picking out their trees.  They seem to be in the spirit, but it&#8217;s still escaping me.  I think I need some cold and snow before I&#8217;ll feel like it.  What about you &#8211; have you started preparing for the holidays already?  Are you one of *those people* that have all the gifts wrapped and hidden away somewhere?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the garden center around the corner today looking for a rosemary topiary. There was just one left and it was already half way to dead so I left it there. There were plenty of poinsettias though. I left them there too. I like them well enough when they&#8217;re massed together like in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poinsettias<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}