{"id":148,"date":"2013-07-30T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-01-30T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:33:29","slug":"148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/148\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside flowers in the drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-149\" alt=\"scan0005\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0005-300x269.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0005-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0005-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0005-624x560.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0005.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some roadside flowers blooming even in July and even in this drought. HC publicity people are lining me up for a few readings around Texas. My problem with readings and appearances is that I have animals &#8212; two horses, a donkey (anybody want a donkey? I&#8217;ll bring him to you, free of charge) and Rita the Whippet and two twin tabby-fellow cats. who, even as I speak are out murdering birds. Despite collars with bells on them.<\/p>\n<p>And so I have to hire people to come and feed, take cats to cat-boarding-place. Friends would do it but you can impose on friends just so much. So there&#8217;s a lot of preparation and arranging and so on. Actually I love appearances, readings. It&#8217;s an ego-enhancer, a time to play dressup, excuses for new clothes, luxurious nights in places where they serve you food and clean your room. Not bad, not bad.<\/p>\n<p>If they put me up in a Drury Inn I can bring Rita The Whippet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some roadside flowers blooming even in July and even in this drought. HC publicity people are lining me up for a few readings around Texas. My problem with readings and appearances is that I have animals &#8212; two horses, a donkey (anybody want a donkey? I&#8217;ll bring him to you, free of charge) and Rita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}