{"id":10720,"date":"2019-09-19T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:47:39","slug":"second-summer-ikebana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/second-summer-ikebana\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Summer Ikebana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10715\" src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2-600x815.jpg 600w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/autumn-2.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a> Isn&#8217;t it supposed to be autumn this weekend? The trees are still green, the weather is still warm&#8230; It definitely feels like a second summer is sneaking back to us. Blegh!<\/p>\n<p>This more traditional-looking sparse arrangement is another one made with the same bundle of flowers as the last one, but it feels quite different I think. The roses make me think of the sweltering heat of mid-summer, but their colour absolutely evokes autumn foliage.<\/p>\n<p>I am definitely ready for it to actually stay cooler and crisper now! Can summer just go away properly, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it supposed to be autumn this weekend? The trees are still green, the weather is still warm&#8230; It definitely feels like a second summer is sneaking back to us. Blegh! This more traditional-looking sparse arrangement is another one made with the same bundle of flowers as the last one,\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/second-summer-ikebana\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545],"tags":[546,677,68,900,1311],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ikebana","tag-ikebana","tag-moribana","tag-orange","tag-roses","tag-1311"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10769,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}