{"id":317,"date":"2008-01-09T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-01-09T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:27:42","slug":"unfortunate-subject-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate subject line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first editor I worked for warned me about asking hypothetical questions.<\/p>\n<p>I think the world of Marie Iannotti over at<a HREF=\"http:\/\/gardening.about.com\/\"> About.com: Gardening<\/a>, but the subject line from her opt-in email today could have used a second look before hitting send:<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Gardening: Is it Garden Worthy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written my share of bad subject lines and headlines. \u00c2\u00a0That said,  Marie has started what could be a really\u00c2\u00a0garden-worthy thread with this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I &#8216;m curious to know what your experience has been with planting award winning or much touted plants in your own gardens &#8211; good or bad. Use the comments link below and clue us in to which plants would you recommend and which should we avoid?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I recall correctly, one of the criteria for AAS winners is &#8216;widely adapted&#8217; &#8212; so they should perform well for most gardeners.  But I&#8217;m more apt to look for plants that are peculiarly adapted to my situation as opposed to those that will do OK all over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/gardening.about.com\/b\/2008\/01\/08\/award-winning-plants-what-do-you-think.htm\">Go take Marie&#8217;s poll and join the conversation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first editor I worked for warned me about asking hypothetical questions. I think the world of Marie Iannotti over at About.com: Gardening, but the subject line from her opt-in email today could have used a second look before hitting send: About Gardening: Is it Garden Worthy? I&#8217;ve written my share of bad subject lines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unfortunate subject line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bummers","category-meta","category-other-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}