{"id":561,"date":"2009-06-03T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-06-04T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T07:21:17","slug":"flower-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/flower-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-562\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/flower-fate\/di090603\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-562\" title=\"di090603\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/di090603.jpg\" alt=\"di090603\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/di090603.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/di090603-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later yesterday, I found a single glass jar that had escaped the fate of its brethren. \u00c2\u00a0I would have taken it to the city today to dump it with the others in the glass container, but instead I pulled the flowers up from the trash can and put them in the the glass jar with water. \u00c2\u00a0That way they will die more slowly, and isn&#8217;t that what we all want?<\/p>\n<p>Under the perspective of eternity &#8211; or even geology &#8211; we are all withering like flowers at the height of our strength. \u00c2\u00a0But each day is another day. \u00c2\u00a0For now, I feel fine. \u00c2\u00a0Well, except for the mowing of the lawn. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;What does not kill us makes us stiff and sore.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later yesterday, I found a single glass jar that had escaped the fate of its brethren. \u00c2\u00a0I would have taken it to the city today to dump it with the others in the glass container, but instead I pulled the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/flower-fate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}