{"id":3124,"date":"2011-07-28T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/28\/life-abides\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:24:54","slug":"life-abides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/28\/life-abides\/","title":{"rendered":"Life abides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/office-plant.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"648\" alt=\"office plant in bloom\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn a shocking development that has to be symbolic of something, the horribly ugly chosen because it&#8217;s hardy and can handle neglect office plant located next to my desk has actually flowered, which is the first time I&#8217;ve ever seen one of them do that.  You don&#8217;t expect this from this sort of plant, which as well could&#8217;ve been plastic for all anybody cared, but there it is, spreading a lavender sort of scent reminiscent of the better sort of public conviences. Doesn&#8217;t do my headache any good.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDid remind me of a short story in one of thos Gardner Dozois <cite>Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction<\/cite> bricks, about a team of biologists specialising in finding thought to be extinct plant species and such in office gardens and such. Nothing else remains from that story, but that stuck with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking development that has to be symbolic of something, the horribly ugly chosen because it&#8217;s hardy and can handle neglect office plant located next to my desk has actually flowered, which is the first time I&#8217;ve ever seen one of them do that. You don&#8217;t expect this from this sort of plant, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-world","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}