{"id":110625,"date":"2021-05-09T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110625"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:52:09","slug":"moms-lilacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110625","title":{"rendered":"Mom&#8217;s Lilacs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good weather has given me an opportunity to leave the gym\u2019s treadmill behind and head outside for my&nbsp;<em>stroll<\/em>.&nbsp; I have a 7 mile loop that I walk in Woodbury, and with trees in flower I pass by any number of lilac bushes (<em>Syringa vulgaris<\/em>).&nbsp; And it put me to mind that the Gordon\u2019s had a lilac bush (more a tree) that was just on the other side of the fence next to our garage.&nbsp; Some of the branches hung over to&nbsp;<em>our side<\/em>&nbsp;of the fence.&nbsp; And I assume with Gordon\u2019s approval, the flowers were fair game for Mom to cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mom would harvest several small branches with leaf and flowers and place them into a good sized glass vase.&nbsp; I loved the scent of those flowers.&nbsp; I still do, and it&#8217;s a warm connection to my memory of Mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lilac-bush-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lilac-bush-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lilac-bush-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lilac-bush-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good weather has given me an opportunity to leave the gym\u2019s treadmill behind and head outside for my&nbsp;stroll.&nbsp; I have a 7 mile loop that I walk in Woodbury, and with trees in flower I pass by any number of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110625\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-small-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110628,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110625\/revisions\/110628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}