{"id":1004,"date":"2019-08-02T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:38:58","slug":"a-verdant-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2019\/08\/02\/a-verdant-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Verdant Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cotton-blossom-in-afternoon-light-great-92813-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1005\" data-link=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/?attachment_id=1005\" class=\"wp-image-1005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cotton-blossom-in-afternoon-light-great-92813-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cotton-blossom-in-afternoon-light-great-92813-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cotton-blossom-in-afternoon-light-great-92813-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Heirloom Cotton Blossom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. &#8216;Green fingers&#8217; are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. <br><\/p><cite>Russell Page<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cotton can be grown by home gardeners. The beautiful blossoms may remind one of okra, hollyhock and hibiscus blossoms and with good reason; these plants are all members of the mallow family of plants.  Click on the link below to learn how to include this plant in the home garden.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider making organic cotton choices when shopping for clothing, sheets and towels &#8211;  an extension of a  verdant heart.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cottonacres.com\/how-to-grow-cotton\/\">Cotton Acres<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. &#8216;Green fingers&#8217; are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. Russell Page Cotton can be grown by home gardeners. The beautiful blossoms may remind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2019\/08\/02\/a-verdant-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Verdant Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beautification","category-educational","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}