{"id":8161,"date":"2013-03-11T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:58:24","slug":"simple-things-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8161","title":{"rendered":"Simple Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple and beautiful thing for a cold snowy Monday here in my corner of the world.<\/p>\n<p>On a dreary cold morning at the farm shop I noticed the new buds on the young beech trees. How beautiful that the leaves stay until the new buds are open. No one knows why this happens, perhaps to protect the new buds from browsing deer, maybe to provide some frost protection to the new buds. Botanists call this retention of dead plant matter marcescence.<br \/>\nWhatever the reason I am glad that they do so that I can see it and share it with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-little-things.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-little-things.jpg\" alt=\"The little things\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-little-things.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-little-things-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay warm, Or cool, which ever will make you happiest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple and beautiful thing for a cold snowy Monday here in my corner of the world. On a dreary cold morning at the farm shop I noticed the new buds on the young beech trees. How beautiful that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simple-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}