{"id":22602,"date":"2026-07-24T22:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22602"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:05:19","slug":"flower-of-the-day-surprise-amaryllis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22602","title":{"rendered":"Flower of the Day: Surprise Amaryllis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/amaryllisIMGP0014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/amaryllisIMGP0014.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/amaryllisIMGP0014-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>This thing has been sitting on our windowsill unwatered since Christmas, when it didn&#8217;t bloom anyway, no leaves and a dried-up bulb that suddenly burst into bud.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>* by Shirley Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thing has been sitting on our windowsill unwatered since Christmas, when it didn&#8217;t bloom anyway, no leaves and a dried-up bulb that suddenly burst into bud. A2 is reading The Haunting of Hill House* by Shirley Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602"}],"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=22602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22604,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602\/revisions\/22604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}