{"id":1570,"date":"2014-04-29T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2014-04-29T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:38:27","slug":"back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Back in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1571\" alt=\"new front garden\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00011.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00011.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00011-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got back from a trip to Vermont to find that our house-sitter had expanded our plant collection nicely, cleaned up all the potted plants and generally made the place much nicer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1572\" alt=\"Elmo tying up roses\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00021.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00021.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT00021-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So in celebration, I went to the garden centre. I want to be surrounded by flowers. Elmo planted a rose that I&#8217;d bought last year (eek!) but it seemed to be ok. I&#8217;m sure it will be happier in a big pile of manure rather than its tiny old pot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1573\" alt=\"Anna planting her new orange azalea\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT0003.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT0003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PICT0003-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got an orange azalea because it&#8217;s one of Anna&#8217;s favourites. Well, technically orange rhododendron is her favourite, but I&#8217;m not sure what the actual difference is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got back from a trip to Vermont to find that our house-sitter had expanded our plant collection nicely, cleaned up all the potted plants and generally made the place much nicer. So in celebration, I went to the garden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}