{"id":51198,"date":"2014-01-20T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51198"},"modified":"2014-01-20T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:50:42","slug":"a-gift-from-rancho-reubidoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51198","title":{"rendered":"a gift from Rancho Reubidoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>My flea market buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchoreubidoux.com\/\">Reuben<\/a>, stopped by recently to pick up some odds and ends left over from the flea, but very, very kindly left behind a few of them, including this wrought iron orb that I was particularly smitten with, which now hangs on a short chain under the pergola.  The bromeliad perched on prongs welded to the base at the center is Aechmea recurvata &#8216;Aztec Gold,&#8217; its roots mossed up in soil and tied with string.  The orb is just as stunning left empty, lit with a candle, filled with tillandsias, draped in Spanish moss, etc., etc.  It is so typical of Reuben&#8217;s restless, playful creativity to source objects that can take on a number of guises and functions.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/jan2014\/P1011992.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011992.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Thank you again for your big-hearted generosity, Reuben.)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My flea market buddy, Reuben, stopped by recently to pick up some odds and ends left over from the flea, but very, very kindly left behind a few of them, including this wrought iron orb that I was particularly smitten &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51198\">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":[33],"tags":[664],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-djM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198"}],"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=51198"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51254,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions\/51254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}