{"id":2308,"date":"2010-04-25T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2012-01-11T00:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T04:35:55","slug":"sity-hello-yellow-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"SITY: Hello, Yellow Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yellow.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2307\" title=\"Yellow\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yellow-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yellow-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yellow-770x1024.jpg 770w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Yellow.JPG 912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a forsythia flower glorying in the late afternoon sun. You can&#8217;t help but admire its sunny personality, not to mention its persistence. At some point my husband cut this bush back so far that I didn&#8217;t even know we had forsythia in the yard, and I believe his intent was to kill it. Now look at it!<\/p>\n<p>Forsythia is like that, though. It grows like a weed, and I can remember one place where it grew so big and so ugly that it almost turned me against the plant forever. It was in my parents&#8217; back yard, near the fence that separated us from the neighbors that had the worst dog ever. It was like a jungle of forsythia there. And don&#8217;t even get me started on the dog. I haven&#8217;t liked dogs much since, either.<\/p>\n<p>But this yellow fellow is so pretty, I may have to forgive forsythia for all its past sins. It just needs a strong guiding hand, someone to keep it in line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, fellow. You grow so much as an inch out of line and my husband will cut you back within an inch of your life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this forsythia will behave itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a forsythia flower glorying in the late afternoon sun. You can&#8217;t help but admire its sunny personality, not to mention its persistence. At some point my husband cut this bush back so far that I didn&#8217;t even know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2308\">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":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[107,124,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}