{"id":2263,"date":"2012-09-10T11:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:32:33","slug":"shower-planter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/09\/shower-planter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shower planter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had to trim our pothos plant. Rather than compost the trimmings, Carol decided to make a home for them in the shower. She got me to cut a big round hole in the side of a plastic soda water bottle using my pocket knife; then she got me to drill two holes at the top of the bottle so we could hang it; I drilled those two holes using the awl in my pocket knife. She attached the bottle to the shower rod using a big twist tie left over from something, added some water, and put the pothos cuttings through the big round hole.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, the pothos cuttings twisted towards the light, and their butt ends pulled out of the water. So I drilled two small holes about an inch back of the big round hole on either side, above the water level, and threaded a piece of straight brass wire through; the wire keeps the pothos cuttings aimed down at the water.<\/p>\n<p>Our shower planter has been up for a month now. Here&#8217;s what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BlogSep1012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BlogSep1012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shower planter\" width=\"420\" height=\"708\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had to trim our pothos plant. Rather than compost the trimmings, Carol decided to make a home for them in the shower. She got me to cut a big round hole in the side of a plastic soda water bottle using my pocket knife; then she got me to drill two holes at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/09\/shower-planter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shower planter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-diy-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}