{"id":6296,"date":"2010-08-06T20:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2018-05-28T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T18:31:11","slug":"a-pretty-nurse-is-selling-poppies-from-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Elvis Costello does Penny Lane for his mum and the POTUS, filmed June 2, 2010, for PBS.  I know I&#8217;m betraying both my age and a schmaltz streak a mile wide, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vSo-VFTq5PU\">this<\/a> is lovely.  Well done, Elvis.  I was too young to catch the Beatles, but Elvis and I go way back (1976 <em>My Aim Is True<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/07\/elvis_costello_sings_penny_lane_for_sir_paul.html\">Open Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course the pretty nurse knew that, for cut flowers, she needed to sear the ends of the poppies with a lit match first, right?<\/big><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=jan11poppy007-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/jan11poppy007-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Costello does Penny Lane for his mum and the POTUS, filmed June 2, 2010, for PBS. I know I&#8217;m betraying both my age and a schmaltz streak a mile wide, but&#8230; this is lovely. Well done, Elvis. I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=6296\">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":[35],"tags":[147,13],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-1Dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296"}],"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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85672,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/85672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}