{"id":1945,"date":"2023-03-07T11:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:23:32","slug":"pushy-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/07\/pushy-willow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushy Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PushyWillow.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/yummymoon-634546\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=984846\">Jakub Luksch<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=984846\">Pixabay<\/a><br>Words and scribbles mine! March 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While I was out for a healthy walk along the <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/19\/images-of-the-freisinger-riviera-a-continuing-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Freisinger Riviera\">Freisinger Riviera<\/a> the other day, I noticed the pussy willows are out, and they are approximately the same color as Petzi.  (He accompanies me on walks and errands as an anxiety mitigation strategy. Three years after I <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/die-kaputte-linke-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"trip and do permanent damage to myself\">tripped on the sidewalk and did permanent damage to myself<\/a>, I am still terrified I will do it again. Having a friendly face in my pocket to wait with me for the X-Ray results helps&#8211;and it&#8217;s better than slamming a <em>Schnaps<\/em> every time I need to leave the house.)  So I made a cute tweet for Stuffie Twitter: <em>Aber warum hei\u00dft die &#8220;K\u00e4tzchenweide&#8221; und nicht &#8220;B\u00e4rchenweide&#8221;?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the clarification for some bears who don&#8217;t read German, my phone changed &#8220;pussy willow&#8221; to &#8220;pushy willows&#8221;, as if this is a thing that exists.  I caught it in time, but it tickled my Dad-joke funny bone&#8211;let&#8217;s call it an Aunt Joke.<br><br>I drew the face with a pen on a tablet; trying to pick up some new skills. Very pleased how it turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aunt joke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,140,38],"tags":[60,34],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hannele","category-memes","category-miscellaneous-hobbies","tag-bears","tag-freising"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}