{"id":837,"date":"2011-11-27T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=837"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:55:38","slug":"todays-flowers-poinsettia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Flowers &#8211; Poinsettia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6408697845\/\" title=\"Poinsettia 1 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poinsettia 1\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6408697845_ae3a8b9e0e-300x160.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweetie wanted to get some poinsettias for some friends and family members so we headed out to<b><span style=\"color: red;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/anewleaf.org\/\">A New Leaf<\/a><\/span><\/b> in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow. It is a not for profit organization that provides, among other things, job training services for individuals with disabilities, and they had Poinsettias in all sorts of colors and patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6408711763\/\" title=\"Pink Poinsettia by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pink Poinsettia\" height=\"251\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6408711763_f0c0404529-300x150.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as popping in and out of a greenhouse for Sweetie. She is the gardener&#8217;s gardener.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6408734321\/\" title=\"Heather and Poinsettias by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather and Poinsettias\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6408734321_4a3c7a6e36-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think she wanted one of each. We finally picked a few out. Is there anything better than flowers for Christmas? (Or any other occasion?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\"><b>Today&#8217;s Flowers<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know, according to <b><span style=\"color: red;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tlc.howstuffworks.com\/family\/christmas-poinsettia.htm\">TLC<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Poinsettia&#8217;a are not toxic.<\/p>\n<p>They are originally from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>They were introduced to the United States by &nbsp;Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first US ambassador to Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweetie wanted to get some poinsettias for some friends and family members so we headed out to A New Leaf in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow. It is a not for profit organization that provides, among other things, job training services for individuals with disabilities, and they had Poinsettias in all sorts of colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5235,"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":[218,692,693,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-flower","category-plants","category-sweetie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}