{"id":5683,"date":"2010-03-02T02:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2010-03-02T02:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:13:30","slug":"rose-of-sharon-seed-hibiscus-syriacus-flatbush-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/03\/02\/rose-of-sharon-seed-hibiscus-syriacus-flatbush-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"A rose by any other name &#8211; Rose of Sharon seed &#8211; Hibiscus syriacus &#8211; Flatbush, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/rose_of_sharon.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/rose_of_sharon-bw.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em><strong>Rose of Sharon<\/strong> is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name&#8217;s colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion. Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch phrase in lyrics and verse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em>Hibiscus syriacus<\/em>, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, the plant generally referred to in American English as &#8220;Rose of Sharon&#8221; and the national flower of South Korea. The specific epithet indicates that the plant was thought to originate from Syria. The flower&#8217;s name in Korean is <em>mugunghwa<\/em> (Korean Hangul: \ubb34\uad81\ud654, Hanja: \u7121\u7aae\u82b1) meaning &#8216;immortality&#8217;. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_of_Sharon\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name&#8217;s colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion. Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[551,758,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flatbush","category-horticulture","category-micro-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}