{"id":362,"date":"2008-08-17T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:17:00","slug":"the-gardening-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"The Gardening Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ann Newcomer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahogardener.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/15\/olympic-medal-event-gardeners-face-off-for-gold-silver-bronze\/\">Idaho Gardener<\/a> is holding an Olympic event for gardeners and there is still time to enter.<\/p>\n<p>Here are her rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 102);\"><p>Three rules:<br \/>1. You must link back to this website.<br \/>2. You must show me the best of the best of your garden. You decide what that is: single plant, single fabulous piece of produce, collection of tomatoes, collection of hoes, a garden vignette, whatever. Three entries per garden.<br \/>3. Deadline is Sunday night at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>I will decide everything. I will give out the awards which will be smallish but very meaningful and thoughtful. I will make up categories as I feel like it. I am a huge fan of \u201cstyle points.\u201d Give it your Olympic best. Show me your stuff!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And since I am lazy, I am going to enter three photos already existing on my blog.<br \/>My pav\u00e9 grape tomatoes from <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/my-husband-brings-me-jewels.html\">Larry<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SJGxMDwrYZI\/AAAAAAAACJ4\/rn0d4YC07DI\/s1600-h\/pave_juliets.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SJGxMDwrYZI\/AAAAAAAACJ4\/rn0d4YC07DI\/pave_juliets.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229155463079879058\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My favorite yellow daylily, Bountiful Valley, from <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/i-play-favorites.html\">this<\/a> post: <a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SHIQWxmXuoI\/AAAAAAAAB58\/Hd8I06dTlOE\/s1600-h\/bountiful_valley2_07_07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SHIQWxmXuoI\/AAAAAAAAB58\/Hd8I06dTlOE\/bountiful_valley2_07_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220252901533268610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And finally, back to the veggie garden for a zuke blossom from <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/six-suggestions-for-happy-life.html\">this<\/a> post:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGL5524pYMI\/AAAAAAAAB0g\/p75vW8CC400\/s1600-h\/squash_blossom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGL5524pYMI\/AAAAAAAAB0g\/p75vW8CC400\/squash_blossom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216006090829422786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, go check out Mary&#8217;s wonderful blog and get in your entry too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ann Newcomer of Idaho Gardener is holding an Olympic event for gardeners and there is still time to enter. Here are her rules: Three rules:1. You must link back to this website.2. You must show me the best of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}