{"id":36737,"date":"2013-07-22T06:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36737"},"modified":"2013-07-22T06:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:34:43","slug":"if-you-think-dc-stinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36737","title":{"rendered":"If You Think DC Stinks . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . today, you&#8217;re more correct than usual.\u00a0 Yesterday a <em>titan arum<\/em> &#8211; a huge tropical plant often referred to as the &#8220;corpse flower&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2013\/07\/22\/foul-smelling-corpse-flower-blooms-in-shadow-us-capitol\/\">began blooming at the US Botanic Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;corpse flower&#8221; by all accounts smells like rotting flesh.\u00a0 It&#8217;s expected to be at &#8220;peak stench&#8221; today, and to continue blooming for a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>So today, if you think you smell something foul wafting your way from DC &#8211; you just might.\u00a0 And this time the stench might be coming from something other than the Federal bureaucracy or lobbyists.\u00a0 (Smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . today, you&#8217;re more correct than usual.\u00a0 Yesterday a titan arum &#8211; a huge &hellip; <a title=\"If You Think DC Stinks . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If You Think DC Stinks . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}