{"id":5414,"date":"2011-07-22T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:04:09","slug":"why-i-am-not-in-charge-of-naming-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/friends\/why-i-am-not-in-charge-of-naming-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not in charge of naming flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/5964065075\/\" title=\"21july1 by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6135\/5964065075_9b6bfd46c2_z.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"21july1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While hiking up Lookout Mountain last year, Nick Fowler and I for some reason started talking about black-eyed Susans and how they got their name. We pretty much settled on the only possibility that made sense to us at the time: That the black-eyed Susan was a flower insensitively and macabrely named for a domestic violence altercation of yore. That is not true, the internet tells me, and I am quite relieved.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have some sweet black-eyed Susans in the yard this year \u2014 another bright spot transplanted from Middle Tennessee to Memphis by @saraclark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hiking up Lookout Mountain last year, Nick Fowler and I for some reason started talking about black-eyed Susans and how they got their name. We pretty much settled on the only possibility that made sense to us at the time: That the black-eyed Susan was a flower insensitively and macabrely named for a domestic violence altercation of yore. That is not true, the internet tells me, and I am quite relieved. Anyway, I have&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":[32,1056,1365],"tags":[937,1149,2266,986,1837],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-gardening","category-yardlust","tag-flower","tag-friend","tag-gardening","tag-nick","tag-saraclark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","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=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}