{"id":764,"date":"2009-04-15T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/15\/off-topic-stop-and-smell-my-roses\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:42:10","slug":"off-topic-stop-and-smell-my-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/15\/off-topic-stop-and-smell-my-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-Topic: Stop&#8230; And Smell My Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following heart valve surgery, I learned to slowwwwwww down.<\/p>\n<p>However, given my career and my goals, this wasn&#8217;t easy. In fact, at times, it was downright miserable.<\/p>\n<p>One hobby I picked up to help me &#8220;slow down&#8221; was gardening&#8230; More specifically, roses.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m still learning lots about how to properly grow roses, I&#8217;m having the time of my life now that the Spring season is here. Here you can see some of my early bloomers. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/rose3-2009.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/rose1-2009.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I took this picture earlier today:<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/rose2-2009.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And, the last one:<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/rose4-2009.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Remember&#8230; Slow down&#8230; Take it easy&#8230; And, of course, &#8220;Stop to smell the roses!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}