{"id":1581,"date":"2009-11-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:11:19","slug":"missouri-botanical-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Botanical Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobot.org\/default.asp\">Missouri Botanical Gardens <\/a>were a total surprise to me. Sweetie wanted to go see them and I said &#8220;OK&#8221; without a whole lot of enthusiasm. Once I got there I was wowed. They are huge. They cover almost 80 acres and extensive and varied and very very cool. They just go on forever. We spent several hours there. Turns out they are 150 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Plants they had, flowers, shrubs, trees, grass, whatever. They were beautiful, even in mid October.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4073289775\/\" title=\"mbotgarflowers1_Page000 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mbotgarflowers1_Page000\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/4073289775_736a704ca4-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more plants, some with thorns on the leaves.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4074049460\/\" title=\"mbtflower2_Page000 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mbtflower2_Page000\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/4074049460_1e6c536e31-300x231.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love water features. They had water features everywhere.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4074046872\/\" title=\"MBotGardenWater_Page000_Page000 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MBotGardenWater_Page000_Page000\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/4074046872_f41a48dcd7-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had lots of FUN that day. We were bushed when we were done.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4074050390\/\" title=\"mbotfamily_Page000 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mbotfamily_Page000\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/4074050390_6c17e1e75a-300x231.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend that Gardens if you are ever in Saint Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Botanical Gardens were a total surprise to me. Sweetie wanted to go see them and I said &#8220;OK&#8221; without a whole lot of enthusiasm. Once I got there I was wowed. They are huge. They cover almost 80 acres and extensive and varied and very very cool. They just go on forever. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}