{"id":11922,"date":"2019-10-11T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2019-10-12T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T20:38:41","slug":"daily_1743_-_potted_plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/daily_1743_-_potted_plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1743 &#8211; potted plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1743_potted_plants.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\nSince we moved to this office, I have two small potted plants in the window alcove next to my desk, a fern and a jade plant.<\/p>\n<p>Or rather, I had two. Recently I discovered that the fern was infested with mealybugs. I have no idea how that can have happened, the plants have all been here for a year and nobody has brought any new plants that might have been carrying the bugs. And jade plant as well as the official office decoration plant (whose name escapes me right now) are both free from the pest.<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of mealybugs is more effort than the fern is worth, so I just threw it out. That left me with an empty pot. Then I realized that the jade plant was outgrowing its tiny pot and replanted it, and now I had two empty pots. They&#8217;re rather small and not very practical, but still, a tiny pot with a plant is clearly better than a tiny pot without a plant, so I bought two of the tiniest plants I could find in the flower shop across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we moved to this office, I have two small potted plants in the window alcove next to my desk, a fern and a jade plant. Or rather, I had two. Recently I discovered that the fern was infested with mealybugs. I have no idea how that can have happened, the plants have all been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}