{"id":125,"date":"2008-03-13T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-03-13T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:24:00","slug":"backyard-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p>Today I saw something I&#8217;ve never seen before&#8230;or even thought about. I saw a ladybug laying eggs!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2203\/2331340841_e689e088fc_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Pretty bizarre! Afterwards, she just flew away and that was that. I read up on it and they should hatch within a week. I&#8217;ll try to remember to check on them, although their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Lady-beetle-larvae-just-hatched.jpg\">larvae<\/a> stage isn&#8217;t too cute.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2139\/2331341169_f9124507f8_o.jpg\" width=250px> <img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2142\/2332168564_3c3ce2f7c8_o.jpg\" width=250px><\/p>\n<p>The naked lady now has daffodils and our backyard is full of bunny flowers!<\/p>\n<p>I found the naked lady vase in our old house. She had been left in the bathroom cabinet. Andy thinks we were meant to have the vase cause I used to have short red hair and resembled her.<\/p>\n<p>I dubbed the colorful weeds Bunny Flowers when I was five for obvious reasons&#8230;they look like bunnies (with a funny mouth, but that&#8217;s ok). I remember them most from my Grandmother&#8217;s yard in Mississippi. I used to pick a bunch for her before we went inside to say hello. When my parents told me they were weeds and not actual flowers, I remember being so sad. Now they have graced us with their presence over our entire backyard.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw something I&#8217;ve never seen before&#8230;or even thought about. I saw a ladybug laying eggs! Pretty bizarre! Afterwards, she just flew away and that was that. I read up on it and they should hatch within a week. I&#8217;ll try to remember to check on them, although their larvae stage isn&#8217;t too cute. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}