{"id":1229,"date":"2007-06-23T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T01:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/pleasant-surprise\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:46:45","slug":"pleasant-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/pleasant-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working in my office yesterday when a former co-worker who&#8217;d just graduated in this year&#8217;s student class stepped into my doorway with a <strong>pleasant surprise<\/strong>. In his hands were two glasses, and four long-stemmed roses were in each glass. I was pleased to learn one glass was for me. They&#8217;re wonderfully fragrant and beautiful, so I&#8217;m going to share them with you:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11508\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roses8-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"roses\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roses8-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roses8-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roses8-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working in my office yesterday when a former co-worker who&#8217;d just graduated in this year&#8217;s student class stepped into my doorway with a pleasant surprise. In his hands were two glasses, and four long-stemmed roses were in each glass. I was pleased to learn one glass was for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/pleasant-surprise\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,35],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-pleasant-surprise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roses8-1.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}