{"id":23825,"date":"2011-10-27T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23825"},"modified":"2011-10-27T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:09:32","slug":"the-uninvited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23825","title":{"rendered":"the uninvited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>we are all on watch, just a little on edge here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1026eve006-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>closer and closer to the gloaming, only the fiercest colors now pierce the gathering dark<br \/>\nwhile shy creatures creep out of hiding, feeling emboldened to assert their elemental natures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1026eve003-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1025fringe015-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Monday we&#8217;ll be locking the gates, shutting off the porch lights, and watching <a href=\"http:\/\/obscurehollow.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/uninvited-1944.html\">The Uninvited<\/a> (1944).  Beautiful old house on a cliff in Cornwall offered for sale at impossibly cheap prices for reasons that none of the town folk care to discuss.  A lost dog.  Amazing staircase that animals refuse to ascend.  A seance with an Ouija board and shattering glass.  Ruth Hussey and Ray Milland impeccably dressed for life in a country house.  My kind of scary movie.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B96ApEvaoBY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the haunting scent of mimosa reaching into cold rooms, reaching across time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/acpr070v1mm.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/Theuninvitedposter.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n<p>(Photo of Acacia pravissima by Forest Farm.  The mimosa scent from the perfume worn by Stella&#8217;s mother probably derived from Acacia dealbata.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we are all on watch, just a little on edge here. closer and closer to the gloaming, only the fiercest colors now pierce the gathering dark while shy creatures creep out of hiding, feeling emboldened to assert their elemental natures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23825\">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":[148],"tags":[1566,1567,1561,1563,1560,1562,1565,1564,1568,1559],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-6ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23825"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23863,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23825\/revisions\/23863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}