{"id":1254,"date":"2023-06-21T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2023-06-21T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:28:18","slug":"new-unexpected-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"New\/Unexpected Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1238\" src=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230516_073931-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1237\" src=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230515_153305-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The other day I was sent some of those flowers that are delivered to your porch in a box . When I took them out they were all sort of limp and faded. Oh, well, I thought. They have probably come a long ways over a long time and really, it&#8217;s the thought that  counts, right? In fact it was the thought that counted. I cut off the bottom tips of the rose stems, put that powder stuff in the water, and in just a little while, look what happened!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was sent some of those flowers that are delivered to your porch in a box . When I took them out they were all sort of limp and faded. Oh, well, I thought. They have probably come a long ways over a long time and really, it&#8217;s the thought that counts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}