{"id":18781,"date":"2023-05-01T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:32:40","slug":"april-showers-bring-may-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18781","title":{"rendered":"April Showers Bring May Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gardenIMG_20230501_125129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gardenIMG_20230501_125129.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gardenIMG_20230501_125129-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?tag=the-garden-after\">The garden after<\/a> an April that was cooler and wetter than the last couple of Aprils and had absolutely average sunshine. Bluebells up, tulips down, magnolias still going, poppies in abeyance, foxgloves nonexistent and the cool black tulips hidden behind all the other stuff. Admin2 mowed the lawn but it sprung back up again. It&#8217;s now No-mow May so go, go grass!<br \/>\nAdmin1 is rereading <em>Dissolution<\/em> by CJ Sansom. Admin2 is rereading <em>The Extremes<\/em> by Christopher Priest; tldr: VRSF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The garden after an April that was cooler and wetter than the last couple of Aprils and had absolutely average sunshine. Bluebells up, tulips down, magnolias still going, poppies in abeyance, foxgloves nonexistent and the cool black tulips hidden behind all the other stuff. Admin2 mowed the lawn but it sprung back up again. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April Showers Bring May Flowers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[19,20,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18784,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions\/18784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}