{"id":49,"date":"2007-02-20T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-02-20T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:45:57","slug":"deadheading-what-firefly-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Deadheading: What firefly said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetpeachronicle.typepad.com\/sweet_pea_chronicle\/2007\/02\/great_plants_lo.html\">firefly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; for things that get rained and snowed on, buffeted by wind, tickled by earthworms, munched on by aphids, and pooped on by birds, I&#8217;m supposed to tie on my frilly apron (or, judging by the &#8216;glamour shots,&#8217; perhaps one with fringe and rhinestones), tuck my garden &#8216;housekeeping&#8217; basket under my arm, and gyrate through the garden &#8220;pruning, cutting back, trimming, and, of course, deadheading&#8221; so everything sparkles and blooms, even when it&#8217;s supposed to be asleep? <\/p>\n<p>Uh, I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetpeachronicle.typepad.com\/sweet_pea_chronicle\/2007\/02\/great_plants_lo.html\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Granted, if I was still on a city lot?  I&#8217;d probably be pruning, cutting back, trimming, and, of course, deadheading.<\/p>\n<p>I also loved Eric Grissell&#8217;s <em>Insects and Gardens<\/em>, which I&#8217;d sum up in rhyme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t be<br \/>\nSo OCD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter firefly: &#8230; for things that get rained and snowed on, buffeted by wind, tickled by earthworms, munched on by aphids, and pooped on by birds, I&#8217;m supposed to tie on my frilly apron (or, judging by the &#8216;glamour shots,&#8217; perhaps one with fringe and rhinestones), tuck my garden &#8216;housekeeping&#8217; basket under my arm, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deadheading: What firefly said&#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":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-perennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}