{"id":242,"date":"2008-12-02T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:30:36","slug":"the-christmas-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14242\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14242\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?attachment_id=14242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?fit=310%2C176\" data-orig-size=\"310,176\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"24th wreath\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 F H Powell 2014&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?fit=310%2C176\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?resize=310%2C176\" alt=\"miniature wreath\" width=\"310\" height=\"176\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?w=310 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?resize=300%2C170 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 F H Powell 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) was so named following an old legend that it sprouted in the snow in Bethlehem from the tears of a young girl, who had no gift to give Jesus. <\/p>\n<p>Having seen all the other gifts given to the baby Jesus, she had searched in vain for a small gift of a flower, <!--more-->but had been unable to find anything growing in the snow. An angel saw her tears falling and turned them into a flower for her to give to baby Jesus. The legend gained strength when a poem was written about it in 15th Century Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas roses are often seen in the garden at this time of year, and are most noticeable at a time when there are not many other flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) was so named following an old legend that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,10,12],"tags":[71,86,90,127],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-customs-and-traditions","category-general-interestseasons","category-high-days-and-holidays","tag-christmas","tag-general-interest","tag-high-days-and-holidays","tag-traditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/24th-wreath.jpg?fit=310%2C176","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Q29Z-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14245,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/14245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}