{"id":7914,"date":"2020-10-23T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2020-10-23T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T02:32:23","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Home Depot today to pick up a couple of bags of concrete. While there I stopped by the plant department to look around. As I walked through the department I saw these shockingly ugly succulents. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/PaintedSucculents_IMG_7223.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Succulents\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/PaintedSucculents_IMG_7225.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Succulents\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/PaintedSucculents_IMG_7224.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Succulents\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What possesses folks to do this to plants? Why would anyone want to buy them?<br \/>\nIf folks want brightly colored plastic looking plants, they should buy plastic plants.<\/p>\n<p>Succulents should be appreciated for their natural beauty.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Home Depot today to pick up a couple of bags of concrete. While there I stopped by the plant department to look around. As I walked through the department I saw these shockingly ugly succulents. What possesses folks to do this to plants? Why would anyone want to buy them? If folks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-succulents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7917,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}