{"id":1925,"date":"2008-04-23T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/the-return-of-the-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T22:31:07","slug":"the-return-of-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/the-return-of-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post last May about <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/cosmos\/\">cosmos<\/a> flowers that included a little background; I&#8217;ll repeat it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes called Mexican Asters, cosmos were grown by Spanish priests in their mission gardens in Mexico. The evenly placed petals led them to christen the flower &#8220;Cosmos,&#8221; the Greek word for harmony or ordered universe. Cosmos, like many of our warm weather annuals such as marigolds, originated in Mexico and South America.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are currently flourishing on the patio. Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/more-cosmos.jpg' title='more-cosmos.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/more-cosmos.jpg' alt='more-cosmos.jpg' width='540' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post last May about cosmos flowers that included a little background; I&#8217;ll repeat it here: Sometimes called Mexican Asters, cosmos were grown by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}