{"id":8826,"date":"2026-04-26T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:57:41","slug":"a-tulip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8826","title":{"rendered":"A Tulip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-Tulip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-Tulip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-Tulip.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-Tulip-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-Tulip-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A person in my blood cancer conversation group wrote about coping by exercise, research and positive thinking. I wrote him and sent him and another person coping with the disease a flower &#8211; a tulip, reminding them that a flower in bloom shows life.<\/p>\n<p>In response, one wrote back, &#8220;CLL means Living a Long Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person in my blood cancer conversation group wrote about coping by exercise, research and positive thinking. I wrote him and sent him and another person coping with the disease a flower &#8211; a tulip, reminding them that a flower in bloom shows life. In response, one wrote back, &#8220;CLL means Living a Long Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,215,213,138,190,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-cancer-health-personal","category-flowers-photography","category-health","category-health-personal","category-personal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}