{"id":3564,"date":"2016-05-18T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2016-05-18T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:34:20","slug":"green-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"Green fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wp-1463581237966.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1463581237966\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wp-1463581237966.jpg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The simple pleasures of seeing five of my plants sprouting new shoots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have 17 ornamental plants in my flat in Hong Kong. It&#8217;s a tiny jungle in here&#8230;suffice to say I love my plants. Heehee. I need to bring my love of the outdoors into my home and plants do make a huge difference in making a place feel more &#8220;homey&#8221;. I must have gotten my love of plants from my parents as my parents&#8217; home in Singapore is also full of plants.<\/p>\n<p>I especially love it when I see new shoots sprouting. It might be as close as I get to bringing up a person. There is such joy in seeing something grow and flourish under my care and effort. Pure delight. Have you ever noticed that new shoots are of a brighter shade of green compared to its parent? <\/p>\n<p>One day I would like to have a garden where I can grow herbs and vegetables!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 17 ornamental plants in my flat in Hong Kong. It&#8217;s a tiny jungle in here&#8230;suffice to say I love my plants. Heehee. I need to bring my love of the outdoors into my home and plants do make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}