{"id":119,"date":"2012-10-03T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-09-27T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:49:03","slug":"a-tip-for-brown-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/a-tip-for-brown-thumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"A tip for brown thumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in college, I had a basil plant. His name was Philip. Supposedly, basil is very easy to grow. Supposedly, it grows like a weed. Philip did not get this memo. Philip died a slow, limp death.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me and you need a self esteem boost in the plant-growing department, consider planting an onion! This cannot be more simple: take an onion that has sprouted and put it in a pot with some soil. Leave it outside and soon you&#8217;ll end up with a lovely flower on a really long stem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"\/blog\/2012images\/september\/onionflower1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/2012images\/september\/onionplant2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Impressive, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in college, I had a basil plant. His name was Philip. Supposedly, basil is very easy to grow. Supposedly, it grows like a weed. Philip did not get this memo. Philip died a slow, limp death. If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/a-tip-for-brown-thumbs\/\">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":[17],"tags":[20,21,19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}