{"id":9488,"date":"2015-12-21T23:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2015-12-28T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:43:45","slug":"amaryllis-bud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9488","title":{"rendered":"Amaryllis Bud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9490\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9490\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Amaryllis Bud\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9490\" data-wp-pid=\"9490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151221_116026.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaryllis Bud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dorothy is home for Christmas and when she came, she brought this amaryllis with her. Fortunately, she didn&#8217;t fly home, or that would not really have been possible. It would have been sad to have left it at school, though, because it&#8217;s going to bloom in a week or less, and it would have been done by the time she got back, particularly without any water in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sitting on our kitchen table now, and starting to open. We&#8217;re all looking forward to it&#8217;s full splendor when the four flowers open up, deep clear red.<\/p>\n<p>The plant also reminds me of my dad, who liked amaryllises and would often have one at Christmas. It&#8217;s a funny old thing, life, with changes you&#8217;d rather not face or remember but which cannot be avoided. Every year seems to bring more of them (the changes) and as we get older, they seem to accelerate. I&#8217;m ever so thankful for the things we have (mostly for the people we know and love) but always conscious of those who we have lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy is home for Christmas and when she came, she brought this amaryllis with her. Fortunately, she didn&#8217;t fly home, or that would not really have been possible. It would have been sad to have left it at school, though, because it&#8217;s going to bloom in a week or less, and it would have been &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}