{"id":1277,"date":"2017-04-26T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2017-04-25T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T01:37:07","slug":"evil-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/26\/evil-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pollen season! <\/p>\n<p>Here in the South, that\u2019s the season directly between January and summer. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, it brings headaches, sneezes, sniffles and watery eyes. But it also brings blooming azaleas, early roses and flowering fruit trees. Oh, and gentle spring showers. (Which in turn bring mold and mildew.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a maddening but beautiful season, and we welcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was surprised to see a neighbor putting up a cheerful flag celebrating the arrival of \u201cEvil Mold.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Evil Mold Yard Flag\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait. The flag makes more sense when you view it from the other side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold2-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Live Bloom Yard Flag\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold2-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold2-768x965.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold2-815x1024.jpg 815w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EvilMold2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who finds this funny?<\/p>\n<p>Yes?<\/p>\n<p>OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pollen season! Here in the South, that\u2019s the season directly between January and summer. Sure, it brings headaches, sneezes, sniffles and watery eyes. But it also brings blooming azaleas, early roses and flowering fruit trees. Oh, and gentle spring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/26\/evil-mold\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,43,25],"tags":[12,46,26,15],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-spring","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-neighborhood","tag-spring","tag-walkabout-wednesday","tag-yard-flags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}