{"id":650,"date":"2012-02-04T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:42:58","slug":"why-i-live-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post650","title":{"rendered":"Why I live in Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and avoid Utah winters like the plague.<\/p>\n<p>It is <em><strong>February<\/strong><\/em>, but behold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-04-13.42.15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/cb83187fbac7335e27a68948a7959e6b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/cb83187fbac7335e27a68948a7959e6b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My snapdragons are in FULL BLOOM. It&#8217;s <em><strong>February<\/strong><\/em>. And there are <strong><em>flowers blossoming<\/em><\/strong>. And they happen to be snapdragons, which are some of my most favorite flowers (but we can get into that some other time).<\/p>\n<p>So back to the point of <em><strong>flowers blossoming<\/strong><\/em> in <strong><em>February<\/em><\/strong>. We have been experiencing weather in the 60s and 70s, which is a little warm for the area during <strong><em>February<\/em><\/strong>. (Sorry, I keep on having to emphasize the word <em><strong>February <\/strong><\/em>because how fantastic it is that things are so springlike in <em><strong>February<\/strong><\/em>.) I think all the plants are confused about this whole concept of spring and winter, and honestly, that&#8217;s okay with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and avoid Utah winters like the plague. It is February, but behold: My snapdragons are in FULL BLOOM. It&#8217;s February. And there are flowers blossoming. And they happen to be snapdragons, which are some of my most favorite flowers (but we can get into that some other time). So back to the point of flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","category-happy-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}