{"id":3856,"date":"2010-06-14T00:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2010-06-14T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T07:06:27","slug":"belated-friday-flower-no-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/gardening\/belated-friday-flower-no-13\/","title":{"rendered":"(Belated!) Friday Flower No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4699023124\/\" title=\"IMG_9946 by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4046\/4699023124_790c896ac2_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_9946\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My much anticipated dinner-plate dahlias opened up mere hours before I hit the road for Middle Tennessee Thursday. They were beautiful enough when I saw them, but when I returned home today (Sunday), I saw that more of them had opened up in my absence and had already collapsed under their own weight. They were splayed out like they&#8217;d fainted under the sun&#8217;s wilting rays. <\/p>\n<p>They are so gorgeous but so unable to support their own weight. I need to rig up something so that they will be able to stand under the pressure of their blooms. I want them to stand tall and beautiful and proud. I&#8217;ve waited for them for months and it&#8217;s unbecoming for them to show their beauty and then ditch the limelight and head toward the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My much anticipated dinner-plate dahlias opened up mere hours before I hit the road for Middle Tennessee Thursday. They were beautiful enough when I saw them, but when I returned home today (Sunday), I saw that more of them had opened up in my absence and had already collapsed under their own weight. They were splayed out like they&#8217;d fainted under the sun&#8217;s wilting rays. They are so gorgeous but so unable to support their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1056],"tags":[1445,908,2271,2266],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-dahlia","tag-flowers","tag-friday-flower","tag-gardening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-10c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}