{"id":20457,"date":"2019-09-17T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:33:38","slug":"growing-curmudgeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/growing-curmudgeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Curmudgeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me a curmudgeon is not something to plant or see growing in your garden. That is because a curmudgeon is great, galumphing, gormless gardener a bit like me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12410\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Avatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Avatar.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Avatar-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Avatar-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Other Definitions of Curmudgeon<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Curmudgeons who garden with bitterness are a symptom rather than a disease and should be treated like weeds.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">A cantankerous naysayers acting as self appointed gadflies to be insecticided.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">A crusty, ill-tempered or difficult and often elderly gardener potentially from Yorkshire.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Lest we forget the many female versions of curmudgeonliness\u00c2\u00a0 would be battle axes with a few choice synonyms added.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;National Curmudgeons Day, celebrated on January 29, is growing in popularity. That particular date was selected to honor the ornery among us because it is the birthday of comedian, writer, and self-professed curmudgeon W.C. Fields&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me a curmudgeon is not something to plant or see growing in your garden. That is because a curmudgeon is great, galumphing, gormless gardener a bit like me. Other Definitions of Curmudgeon Curmudgeons who garden with bitterness are a symptom rather than a disease and should be treated like weeds. A cantankerous naysayers acting as self appointed gadflies to be insecticided. A crusty, ill-tempered or difficult and often elderly gardener potentially from Yorkshire. Lest we forget the many female&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/growing-curmudgeons\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20462,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions\/20462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}