{"id":173732,"date":"2023-07-31T18:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=173732"},"modified":"2023-07-31T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:44:49","slug":"vintage-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/vintage-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Robbo on fifteen years of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2023\/07\/31\/today-the-drinks-are-on-ol-robbo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Port Stands at Your Elbow<\/a><\/i>. You might want to put another bottle of fortified wine aside for November, when he will celebrate a full twenty years of blogging at <em>TPSaYE<\/em> and earlier at <i>The LLama Butchers<\/i>. A year ago <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pour-a-glass-of-fortified-wine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> I linked to a couple of his whimsical <em>LLB<\/em> pieces<\/a>, well worth reading like most everything else at all his websites.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Robbo also with his <a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2023\/07\/22\/saturday-garden-post-19\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">success with the cup plant<\/a>, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prairiemoon.com\/silphium-perfoliatum-cup-plant-prairie-moon-nursery.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silphium perfoliatum<\/a><\/i>, a nine-foot-plus relative of the sunflower. I&#8217;d like to grow it myself in the arid reaches of my backyard, but it prefers more water than I can conveniently give it.<span id='easy-footnote-1-173732' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/vintage-port\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-173732' title='Instead, I&amp;#8217;m trying &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.prairiemoon.com\/silphium-laciniatum-compass-plant-prairie-moon-nursery.html&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;S. laciniatum&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;, the compass plant, which gets nearly as tall (&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tancos\/53048260276\/in\/dateposted-public\/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the specimen at the local community college&lt;\/a&gt; is seven feet tall) and can take dry conditions. The seeds germinate easily after stratification, but it&amp;#8217;s not a fast grower. It may be several years before it reaches full size.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Robbo on fifteen years of The Port Stands at Your Elbow. You might want to put another bottle of fortified wine aside for November, when he will celebrate a full twenty years of blogging at TPSaYE and earlier at The LLama Butchers. A year ago I linked to a couple of his whimsical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/vintage-port\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage port&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Jc8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173738,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173732\/revisions\/173738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}