{"id":62032,"date":"2014-12-24T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=62032"},"modified":"2014-12-24T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T23:13:17","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=62032","title":{"rendered":"happy holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>I always find that the winter holidays have a lot in common with Silly Putty &#8212;<br \/>\nextremely malleable, occasionally stretching a little thin, often just straddling the border of tangling up into a fine mess, and in this house anyway, ever so slightly goofy.<br \/>\nAnd with just a little goodwill, always resilient, bending without breaking.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/december2014\/silly-putty-package.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo silly-putty-package.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>photo found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasisnet.org\/StLouisMO\/Highlights\/ArtMID\/2646\/ArticleID\/160\/Silly-Puttythe-retro-toy-has-other-uses-too.aspx\">here<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/June%202011\/622morn030.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Agave guadalajarana from holidays past.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Instead of comic book mimicry, I bet I could make some fine agave leaf print impressions with Silly Putty, too, should I find any in my stocking this year.<br \/>\n(after an absence of, oh, maybe 40-some years).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the sublime and the silly this holiday season, and more agaves in the New Year!<\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find that the winter holidays have a lot in common with Silly Putty &#8212; extremely malleable, occasionally stretching a little thin, often just straddling the border of tangling up into a fine mess, and in this house anyway, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=62032\">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":[496,4043,4042],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-g8w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032"}],"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=62032"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62066,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions\/62066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}