{"id":1371,"date":"2007-01-16T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1371"},"modified":"2007-01-16T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:22:00","slug":"green-thumb-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1371","title":{"rendered":"Green Thumb Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/pipesdreams\/pic\/0007qyff\"><\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"pipes_mum\"> has the greenest thumb ever. She brought this orchid back to life, when only a few months ago it had shrunken, yellowing leaves and a dead stem. She&#8217;s like Nero Wolfe, only a lot thinner and less grumpy and she isn&#8217;t an agoraphobic, misogynist Montenegrin ex-spy living in a New York brownstone. Also, I am nothing like Archie Goodwin. Well, okay, I do like to narrate, have a prodigious memory, enjoy drinking milk and consider myself a hit with the ladies&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Work is about to get very, very busy. I am anticipating at least a solid month of working 8am-8pm and some weekends, so I regret to inform that it is time for me to relinquish my death grip on this crack pipe we call the Interweb. Sorry, but my wild and carefree posting days are at an end. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all deeply saddened by this news. Counselling will be available through <lj user=\"themusesbitch\">&#8216;s MoFo addictions group.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <lj user=\"aboveaveragejoe\"> for my Battlestar Galactica music fix this morning &#8211; it&#8217;s getting me through the day.<\/p>\n<p>Pipes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has the greenest thumb ever. She brought this orchid back to life, when only a few months ago it had shrunken, yellowing leaves and a dead stem. She&#8217;s like Nero Wolfe, only a lot thinner and less grumpy and she isn&#8217;t an agoraphobic, misogynist Montenegrin ex-spy living in a New York brownstone. Also, I am <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1371\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}