{"id":1201,"date":"2009-03-25T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:02:12","slug":"and-you-can-breathe-the-helium-when-they-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2009\/03\/and-you-can-breathe-the-helium-when-they-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"And you can breathe the helium when they sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/balloons_crystl-credited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/balloons_crystl-credited-150x150.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"photo by Crystl\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1207 alignright\" \/><\/a>Why don&#8217;t we buy ourselves balloons the same way we buy cut flowers?<\/p>\n<p>They serve the same purpose: pleasant, colorful decoration (most commercial cut flowers aren&#8217;t that aromatic until you get your nose right in them).  They last roughly the same fleeting amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>So why would it be unusual to buy yourself a dozen balloons to let float in your house yet no one would blink at flowers in a vase of water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t we buy ourselves balloons the same way we buy cut flowers? They serve the same purpose: pleasant, colorful decoration (most commercial cut flowers aren&#8217;t that aromatic until you get your nose right in them). They last roughly the same fleeting amount of time. So why would it be unusual to buy yourself a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}