{"id":79721,"date":"2022-01-09T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=79721"},"modified":"2022-01-09T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T08:05:15","slug":"planting-flowers-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2022\/01\/09\/planting-flowers-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting flowers for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I liked &#8211; both in the FB and literal sense &#8211; the post of a friend who&#8217;d offered this image. <span id='easy-footnote-1-79721' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2022\/01\/09\/planting-flowers-for-2022\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-79721' title='I liked the planting flowers meme well enough to track down its provenance. It&amp;#8217;s from a book, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.xlibris.com\/BookStore\/BookDetails\/585242-kissing-fish&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kissing Fish&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;, whose strapline\/subtitle &amp;#8211; lower case and in funky fixed width font &amp;#8211; is &lt;em&gt;&amp;#8220;christianity for people who don&amp;#8217;t like christianity&amp;#8221;.&lt;\/em&gt; The author is one Richard Wolsey and rumour has it he was once a cardinal.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79722\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-planting-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-planting-flowers.jpg 750w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-planting-flowers-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t it incompatible with the image I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2022\/01\/02\/happy-new-year-to-the-free-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a few days ago<\/strong><\/a>? <span id='easy-footnote-2-79721' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2022\/01\/09\/planting-flowers-for-2022\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-79721' title='That I&amp;#8217;d had to Photoshop edit the dates on this second image &amp;#8211; the original by Latuff in &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MintPressNews.com&lt;\/strong&gt; &lt;\/a&gt;had 2019 giving way to 2020 &amp;#8211; tells its own sorry tale.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79319\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/assange-guarding-the-free-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/assange-guarding-the-free-world.jpg 794w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/assange-guarding-the-free-world-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/assange-guarding-the-free-world-768x666.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only if we have a very sentimental notion of what gardening involves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I liked &#8211; both in the FB and literal sense &#8211; the post of a friend who&#8217;d offered this image. But isn&#8217;t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2022\/01\/09\/planting-flowers-for-2022\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-general","category-cest-la-vie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79721"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79737,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721\/revisions\/79737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}