{"id":2587,"date":"2019-12-30T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T14:45:14","slug":"roses-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/roses-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2588 size-full\" title=\"Roses in Winter  Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photographs roses in winter.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost.jpg\" alt=\"Roses in Winter  Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photographs roses in winter.\" width=\"1619\" height=\"1079\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost.jpg 1619w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RoseWinterPost-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1619px) 100vw, 1619px\" \/><\/a>Friends gathering for a holiday feast arrived at my home with delectable dishes and a huge bouquet of roses. Roses in winter. Who\u2019s getting married? I said upon seeing so much pink, although I was immediately drawn to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There was no Christmas tree in the house, again, this year. No Hanukah decorations. I hadn\u2019t even bothered to light candles. At the last minute, realizing how dark the place was, I\u2019d turned on extra lights all around. But the roses outshone even the fake fireplace. And now, days later, I\u2019m still getting lost just gazing into the depths of those bright blossoms.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What brightens the holiday season for you?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends gathering for a holiday feast arrived at my home with delectable dishes and a huge bouquet of roses. Roses in winter. Who&rsquo;s getting married? I said upon seeing so much pink, although I was immediately drawn to it. There was no Christmas tree in the house, again, this year. No Hanukah decorations. I hadn&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1758],"tags":[1720,755,2000,1999,1716],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1758","tag-coping-with-seasonal-depression","tag-light-in-winter","tag-roses","tag-roses-in-winter","tag-seasonal-affective-disorder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}