{"id":210,"date":"2012-06-24T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:26:07","slug":"sansevieria-trifasciata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"SANSEVIERIA TRIFASCIATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Snake-plant-0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-212\" title=\"Snake-plant-0011\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Snake-plant-0011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Snake-plant-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-214\" title=\"Snake plant 004\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Snake-plant-004-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NYT-Book-of-Houseplants-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" title=\"NYT Book of Houseplants cover\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NYT-Book-of-Houseplants-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NYT-Book-of-Houseplants-backcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-296\" title=\"NYT Book of Houseplants  backcover\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NYT-Book-of-Houseplants-backcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was not until I found the book on a cart being given away by my local library to make room for new titles that I even knew there was such a thing as <em>The New York Times Book of Houseplants.<\/em>\u00a0 The copyright indicates a publication date of 1973. Its author Joan Lee Faust was, inter alia, the Garden Editor at the <em>Times<\/em>. The Garden Editor! What a concept.<\/p>\n<p>The description in the book for the snake plant (<em>Sansevieria trifasciata<\/em>) called the plant \u201ca favorite of yesteryear\u201d even back in the nineteen-seventies. I keep several pots full of them. The text indicates that: \u201c[m]ature plants in sunny rooms often send up spikes of white blooms.\u201d \u00a0This spring, mine did; it was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not until I found the book on a cart being given away by my local library to make room for new titles that I even knew there was such a thing as The New York Times Book of Houseplants.\u00a0 The copyright indicates a publication date of 1973. Its author Joan Lee Faust was, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SANSEVIERIA TRIFASCIATA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}