{"id":4947,"date":"2004-04-07T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2004-04-07T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T22:44:07","slug":"look-away-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/04\/07\/look-away-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Look away now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of a nervous disposition may not wish to read on&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s truly awful that anyone could inflict such sufferings on one of the Ken&#8217;s horticultural cousins, and yet he finds that he has to look upon scenes of torture every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aaaargh!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uborka.nu\/images\/uborgy\/lilies070404.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"489\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flowers and foliage, chopped off at the feet and stuffed into a glass torture chamber filled with acidified water, and left in a centrally heated cell to slowly die &#8211; a long and painful death, with only oblivion in the dustbin as a twisted sort of salvation in prospect. This is the source of the awful screaming, day and night, that fills Ken&#8217;s foliar ears. It&#8217;s enough to make his sap boil, but all he can do is sit and watch it all from his terracotta prison on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s left him a broken plant, traumatised and damaged. No palm should ever have to witness such suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of a nervous disposition may not wish to read on&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}