{"id":33020,"date":"2012-08-24T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=33020"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:29:24","slug":"summer-2012-award-for-best-looking-agave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=33020","title":{"rendered":"summer 2012 award for best-looking agave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Though they may give the appearance of being unchanging and monumental, agaves are ever in flux, whether it&#8217;s bad-leaf days from snail damage or a clean outline marred by a congestion of pups.  So when an agave somehow pulls it all together to present a pristine vision of pure agave loveliness it deserves an award.  This summer that award goes to Agave desmetiana &#8216;Variegata.&#8217;<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2012\/P1011297.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This summer you have achieved perfection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2012\/P1011292-001-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1011292-001\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIn bestowing this award, perhaps it may induce you into considering possibly postponing flowering, which I have a feeling you&#8217;re thinking about doing very soon.  After you flower and <del datetime=\"2012-08-24T19:06:59+00:00\">die<\/del> retire, it will take one of your pups quite some time to win a Best-Looking Agave award.  No, that&#8217;s not a threat, just a fact.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though they may give the appearance of being unchanging and monumental, agaves are ever in flux, whether it&#8217;s bad-leaf days from snail damage or a clean outline marred by a congestion of pups. So when an agave somehow pulls it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=33020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28],"tags":[2302],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-8AA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33020"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33082,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020\/revisions\/33082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}