{"id":329,"date":"2006-03-30T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=329"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:40:31","slug":"on-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/on-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever planted tulip bulbs, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that unlike daffodils, tulips tend not to come back stronger year after year.<\/p>\n<p>Constance Casey, writing in <em>Slate<\/em>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2138844\/\"> explains why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s talking about hybrid tulips, of course. I have some species tulips planted in my front garden and they&#8217;re amazing. I&#8217;ll post a photo when they bloom. But of course they are shorter and less showy than the hybrids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever planted tulip bulbs, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that unlike daffodils, tulips tend not to come back stronger year after year. Constance Casey, writing in Slate, explains why. She&#8217;s talking about hybrid tulips, of course. I have some species &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/on-tulips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15],"tags":[896,897,898,895],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-nature","tag-gardening","tag-hybrid-tulips","tag-species-tulips","tag-tulips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}