{"id":7400,"date":"2015-11-25T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:08:44","slug":"still-life-with-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7400","title":{"rendered":"Still life with roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/still-life-with-roses-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"635\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/still-life-with-roses-a.jpg\" alt=\"still-life-with-roses-a\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/still-life-with-roses-a.jpg 997w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/still-life-with-roses-a-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight days ago at Trader Joe&#8217;s, on impulse, I bought a bundle of 20 roses because the price was agreeable. I expected them to last four or five days at best. But, more than a week later, they&#8217;ve opened nicely and are still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>Pots of flowers always remind me of San Francisco. If you rode a bus home from downtown on a Friday, half the people heading home on the bus would have a bundle of flowers in their lap &#8212; especially the guys taking them home to their girlfriends and boyfriends. It was a tradition in San Francisco &#8212; fresh flowers for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will put fresh flowers on my shopping list each week. It&#8217;s amazing how they light up the house during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days ago at Trader Joe&#8217;s, on impulse, I bought a bundle of 20 roses because the price was agreeable. I expected them to last four or five days at best. But, more than a week later, they&#8217;ve opened nicely and are still going strong. Pots of flowers always remind me of San Francisco. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still life with roses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}