{"id":12,"date":"2016-08-07T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-05-02T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:52:00","slug":"desert-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2016\/08\/desert-rose.html","title":{"rendered":"Desert Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve got a narrow balcony behind our home on the fifth floor. This  was my second attempt to grow some plants there &#8211; the effort included  dropping into a nursery and picking up whatever JJ thought looked good.  Pots, some soil, some vermicompost, some accidents and they mostly  survived (My previous success rate was 17%). I know one was a rose  plant, there were a couple of cacti and the rest were mostly green with  one which was a fancy shade of purple.<br \/>So when a friend dropped  in and excitedly said, &#8220;Wow you have a desert rose!&#8221; She stared at it  like it was a pot of gold and said, &#8220;This will survive. Water it once a  week. Blah blah&#8230; etc&#8230; ooh&#8230;and so on&#8221;. I didnt have the heart to  tell her that I picked it up without the faintest idea it was a desert  plant. It sure didn&#8217;t look like a rose to me. I was faithfully watering  it daily.<br \/>I also didnt have the heart to tell her I musically wasnt a fan of Seal, but then&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160712_064514.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160712_064514.jpg?resize=320%2C180\" width=\"320\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a narrow balcony behind our home on the fifth floor. This was my second attempt to grow some plants there &#8211; the effort included dropping into a nursery and picking up whatever JJ thought looked good. Pots, some soil, some vermicompost, some accidents and they mostly survived (My previous success rate was 17%). I know one was a rose plant, there were a couple of cacti and the rest were mostly green with one which was a fancy shade of purple.So when a friend dropped in and excitedly said, &#8220;Wow you have a desert rose!&#8221; She stared at it like it was a pot of gold and said, &#8220;This will survive. Water it once a week. Blah blah&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11,6,7,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}