{"id":158595,"date":"2020-08-31T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/31\/imagine-using-liquid-water-why-people-water-their-house-plants-with-ice-cubes\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:18:29","slug":"imagine-using-liquid-water-why-people-water-their-house-plants-with-ice-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158595","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Imagine using liquid water&#039;: why people water their house plants with ice cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often touted as an easy solution to overwatering, the practice of placing ice cubes in orchids has become a \u2018comedy horticultural moment\u2019One piece of houseplant folklore resurfaces from time to time: that we should water our plants with ice cubes.For years everything from Reader\u2019s Digest to Reddit offered up ice cubes as the trick to keeping potted friends alive. Recently the theory has returned thanks to a pair of meme pages. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/aug\/31\/imagine-using-liquid-water-why-people-water-their-house-plants-with-ice-cubes\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Imagine using liquid water&#039;: why people water their house plants with ice cubes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often touted as an easy solution to overwatering, the practice of placing ice cubes in orchids has become a \u2018comedy horticultural moment\u2019One piece of houseplant folklore resurfaces from time to time: that we should water our plants with ice cubes.For years everything from Reader\u2019s Digest to Reddit offered up ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}