{"id":8462,"date":"2014-12-09T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:00:17","slug":"reading-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8462","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0013\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7555\/15792418137_d7d4ab8843_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0013\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7555\/15792418137_d7d4ab8843_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just picked up\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plant-Recipe-Book-Living-Arrangements\/dp\/1579655513\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418071743&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+plant+recipe+book\" target=\"_blank\">The Plant Recipe Book<\/a> by Baylor Chapman\u00a0<\/em>at our library. It&#8217;s so beautiful! Written much like a cookbook, it contains specific &#8220;recipes&#8221; for living flower arrangements, including exactly what to get for each arrangement, where and how to place each plant, and instructions for care.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0017\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8673\/15976159311_f0a996ae2b_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0017\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8673\/15976159311_f0a996ae2b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0017\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0020\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8675\/15355882444_12a69a732d_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0020\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8675\/15355882444_12a69a732d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0020\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0015\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8628\/15792141829_442f5cb1c7_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0015\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8628\/15792141829_442f5cb1c7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0018\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7557\/15792425797_ec7c5c68a4_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0018\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7557\/15792425797_ec7c5c68a4_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0018\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the succulent and air plant arrangements are my favorite, but I&#8217;m also finding myself going back again and again to just identify the many beautiful plants (they are labeled and photographed beautifully throughout the book). It&#8217;s certainly eye candy, especially when everything is dark and dreary and dormant this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flower-Recipe-Book-Alethea-Harampolis\/dp\/1579655300\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the flower arrangement companion book by a different author. Either would make a lovely gift for the green thumb in your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked up\u00a0The Plant Recipe Book by Baylor Chapman\u00a0at our library. It&#8217;s so beautiful! Written much like a cookbook, it contains specific &#8220;recipes&#8221; for living flower arrangements, including exactly what to get for each arrangement, where and how to place each plant, and instructions for care. Some of the succulent and air plant arrangements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,99],"tags":[115,173,132],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}