{"id":4048,"date":"2016-01-27T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2016-01-29T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T01:03:47","slug":"amaryllis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/amaryllis\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaryllis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to Australia brother John gave me a few plant to look after. A fern, 3 bonsai trees and 2 amaryllis bulbs. Over the last couple of days I&#8217;ve been enjoying the first amaryllis blooms. 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But I&#8217;ll keep watering it for now, maybe something will grow yet.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"text Mark-4-26-Mark-4-29\">Then Jesus said, \u201cGod\u2019s kingdom is like seed thrown on a field by a man who then goes to bed and forgets about it. The seed sprouts and grows\u2014he has no idea how it happens. The earth does it all without his help: first a green stem of grass, then a bud, then the ripened grain. When the grain is fully formed, he reaps\u2014harvest time!<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Mark 4:26-29 MSG<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to Australia brother John gave me a few plant to look after. A fern, 3 bonsai trees and 2 amaryllis bulbs. Over the last couple of days I&#8217;ve been enjoying the first amaryllis blooms. Here are pictures of the progression. The second amaryllis bulb is doing nothing. But I&#8217;ll keep watering it for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/amaryllis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amaryllis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-photos","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}