{"id":5455,"date":"2015-12-30T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T07:15:36","slug":"the-unhappy-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2015\/12\/the-unhappy-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unhappy Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the local Mexican and Central American restaurants near us have their windows painted with a variety of Christmas motifs. My favorite motif is The Unhappy Cactus, as in this window of a restaurant at the corner of Poplar and Ellsworth:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BlogDec3015.jpg\" alt=\"The Unhappy Cactus\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BlogDec3015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BlogDec3015-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BlogDec3015-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BlogDec3015-624x517.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poor guy. it&#8217;s just too wet and cold for him to feel happy. Even his cactus mustache looks unhappy. (Photo credit: Carol Steinfeld)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the local Mexican and Central American restaurants near us have their windows painted with a variety of Christmas motifs. My favorite motif is The Unhappy Cactus, as in this window of a restaurant at the corner of Poplar and Ellsworth: Poor guy. it&#8217;s just too wet and cold for him to feel happy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2015\/12\/the-unhappy-cactus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Unhappy Cactus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}