{"id":1205,"date":"2010-01-20T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:32:57","slug":"eu_tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/eu_tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Tulip_ad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&rsquo;s a poster I spotted the other day. (Sorry for the glare; I couldn&rsquo;t get into better position because that would have entailed standing right in front of the exit from a busy escalator.) It reads roughly <i>Tulips bring a feeling of spring &ndash; buy a bouquet today.<\/i> And then in smaller type, <i>Campaign financed with the support of the European Union and the International Flower Bulb Center<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQuestions arise, and jostle for attention in my head.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, what kind of spring feelings can they possibly be talking about, when it is barely the middle of January and the ground is covered with a thick blanket of snow?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, what is the EU doing, spending money on advertising for flowers?!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThird, wait a moment, is that the same poster they had last year? Yep, identical. Same photo, same layout, same photo, same financing information. Well, at least the EU doesn&rsquo;t waste money on  frivolously making up new posters every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s a poster I spotted the other day. (Sorry for the glare; I couldn&rsquo;t get into better position because that would have entailed standing right in front of the exit from a busy escalator.) It reads roughly Tulips bring a feeling of spring &ndash; buy a bouquet today. And then in smaller type, Campaign financed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[82,83,66],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","tag-advertising","tag-eu","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18383,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/18383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}