{"id":286,"date":"2006-02-23T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-08-06T22:22:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T02:22:39","slug":"oh-woe-what-is-to-become-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"oh woe! what is to become of me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was tagging some of my photographs earlier and came upon a shot of some crapemyrtles. When I label plant photos I like to include the scientific name as a tag . . . just to show off.<\/p>\n

So I’m typing up all my tags: “tree plant crapemyrtle auburn winter azalea rhododendron L–”<\/p>\n

And when I got to “L–,” I had the loudest, most giantic brainfart this earth has ever experienced.<\/p>\n

I forgot<\/em> the scientific name of crapemyrtle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Ohgodohgodohgodohgod,” I think as I flip through the pages of my brain, but all I see is the letter L and a long, fuzzy semblance of a word.<\/p>\n

I would like to say that it eventually came to me, that I snapped my fingers after a few seconds with an “Ah-ha!” and continued tagging, confident in my plant knowledge.<\/p>\n

But no.<\/p>\n

I had to get up and go look at one of my designs on the wall. Oh, the shame of it. And once I saw it I thought, “Oh yeah, how could I forget that?” This is just sad.<\/p>\n

My penance is to say three Hail Tradescants and contemplate on the life of Lagerstroemia<\/em> and chant its name until I never forget it ever, ever again.<\/p>\n

Lagerstroemia indica.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lagerstroemia indica.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lagerstroemia indica.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was tagging some of my photographs earlier and came upon a shot of some crapemyrtles. When I label plant photos I like to include the scientific name as a tag . . . just to show off. So I’m typing up all my tags: “tree plant crapemyrtle auburn winter azalea rhododendron L–” And when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}