{"id":67,"date":"2013-04-18T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:01:13","slug":"mamas-magnolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/mamas-magnolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama&#8217;s Magnolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mama died a year ago in March after a long life and a short illness. \u00a0Shortly after her death, my sisters gave Ann and me a small magnolia tree as a token of appreciation for caring for Mama. \u00a0We planted the little thing in our<a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-68\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0003-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0003-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0003-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0back yard last spring. \u00a0We had to go buy a pickax to remove the rocks we encountered while trying to dig a hole to plant the tree. \u00a0Despite the poor soil, it survived. \u00a0But, all summer it never looked very good. \u00a0Some of the leaves were discolored as if it had a disease. \u00a0We kept it well watered during the dry summer. \u00a0Now, this spring it looks great and has even had two blooms. \u00a0It has displayed Mama&#8217;s strength and\u00a0resilience!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0001-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0001-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_0001-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mama died a year ago in March after a long life and a short illness. \u00a0Shortly after her death, my sisters gave Ann and me a small magnolia tree as a token of appreciation for caring for Mama. \u00a0We planted the little thing in our\u00a0back yard last spring. \u00a0We had to go buy a pickax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qUzP-15","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}