{"id":80,"date":"2005-10-19T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2005-10-19T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T03:35:27","slug":"metro-retro-botanicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"metro-retro botanicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1942.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1942.jpg','popup','width=700,height=933,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1942-tm.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1942\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My brother John told me that, if I were shopping for succulents (which I am), that I should drive over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigredsun.com\/site\/tweet.html\">Big Red Sun<\/a> in East Austin, because they have the best selection in town (which they do). Above is a wall hanging in an assortment of unique pieces termed &#8220;retro botanicals,&#8221; variations on (what is probably their signature) Midcentury Modern bonzai-kitsch. <\/p>\n<p>While it wasn&#8217;t wise to bring the children (the place reminds me of someone&#8217;s home&#8211;someone <em> single<\/em>&#8211;the way totems and art mingle in sterile grace with the contrived botanicals) it <em>was<\/em> wise to bring the camera. What I couldn&#8217;t spend five seconds examining was more easily photographed so that I might instead watch the heathens, who were climbing all over <em>everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1948.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1948.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1948-tm.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1948\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1959.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1959.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1959-tm.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1959\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother John told me that, if I were shopping for succulents (which I am), that I should drive over to Big Red Sun in East Austin, because they have the best selection in town (which they do). Above is a wall hanging in an assortment of unique pieces termed &#8220;retro botanicals,&#8221; variations on (what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}