{"id":1155,"date":"2016-05-25T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2016-05-26T01:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T01:58:12","slug":"spring-for-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Spring for Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Iris-e1464219445723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1154\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Iris-e1464219445723.jpg\" alt=\"Iris\" width=\"283\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Iris-e1464219445723.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Iris-e1464219445723-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Iris-e1464219445723-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>that purple flower<br \/>\nthat reaches up<br \/>\nwith ruffled wings,<br \/>\nand droops down<br \/>\nwith falls and beards,<br \/>\nmirrored.<\/p>\n<p>Its doubled bauble<br \/>\nis neither upside down<br \/>\nnor right-side up;<br \/>\nit looks\u00a0the same<br \/>\nstanding on your\u00a0head<br \/>\nas looking from above.<\/p>\n<p>Either way<br \/>\nit&#8217;s proof of beauty &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>At least in flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Can we extend that<br \/>\ntenderness to humans?<br \/>\nUpside down, right-side up,<br \/>\nthe jury&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris that purple flower that reaches up with ruffled wings, and droops down with falls and beards, mirrored. Its doubled bauble is neither upside down nor right-side up; it looks\u00a0the same standing on your\u00a0head as looking from above. Either way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1155\">Continue reading <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":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[450,117,448,449,197],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-against-nature","tag-baudelaire","tag-iris","tag-spleen","tag-spring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-iD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}