{"id":1601,"date":"2010-01-26T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:06:40","slug":"cactus-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Cactus bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Everybody has quirks. \u00a0My mother is \u00a0no exception. \u00a0One unique thing about my mother is a penchant for shipping strange items across the country or bringing them in her luggage. \u00a0In the past she’s shipped or brought things like old stretcher bars, oreo cookies and broken lava lamps (no mom, you didn’t break it, it’s been broken for ten years). \u00a0This past visit was no different. \u00a0This time she brought two plants. \u00a0Her choice this time was interesting and if I were a woman I’m sure I would fit in the word “cute” to describe the idea. \u00a0Since we were going to Tucson she brought two “Christmas cactus.” (cacti?) \u00a0Earlier this week they started blooming, bringing some color to my drab kitchen. \u00a0I’m pretty sure this is the first time a plant has ever flowered inside my home that wasn’t bought that way. \u00a0Hopefully I will be able to keep it alive long enough for her to see it on her next visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everybody has quirks. \u00a0My mother is \u00a0no exception. \u00a0One unique thing about my mother is a penchant for shipping strange items across the country or bringing them in her luggage. \u00a0In the past she’s shipped or brought things like old stretcher bars, oreo cookies and broken lava lamps (no mom, you didn’t break it, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}