{"id":1525,"date":"2010-05-15T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/15\/mothers-day-flowers\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:33:32","slug":"mothers-day-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/15\/mothers-day-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve just realized that I completely forgot to post a photo of my Mother’s Day flowers! Oops! When my daughter and son-in-law gave them to me on Saturday evening (a week ago already), they were mostly green buds. I brought them home and put them in water, and they’re lasting beautifully. But the green buds soon began giving way to white ones, which in turn gradually grew pink. You can see the result — they’re gorgeous, aren’t they? \ud83d\ude42 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just realized that I completely forgot to post a photo of my Mother’s Day flowers! Oops! When my daughter and son-in-law gave them to me on Saturday evening (a week ago already), they were mostly green buds. I brought them home and put them in water, and they’re lasting beautifully. But the green buds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[303],"tags":[245],"class_list":{"0":"post-1525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"tag-flowers","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2718.jpg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1344,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/a-beautiful-orchid\/","url_meta":{"origin":1525,"position":0},"title":"A beautiful orchid!","author":"Sandy","date":"May 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday was Mother's Day, as many here know. 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