{"id":1041,"date":"2011-10-10T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:55:58","slug":"the-language-of-flowers-by-vanessa-diffenbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1051 size-medium\" title=\"The Language of Flowers\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/The-Language-of-Flowers-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/The-Language-of-Flowers-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/The-Language-of-Flowers.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Victorian times, plants and flowers held symbolic meaning: you might give your love interest a bouquet of tulips (<em>declaration of love<\/em>), your enemy one of tansy (<em>I declare war against you<\/em>).\u00a0 In Diffenbaugh&#8217;s novel, eighteen-year-old Victoria, alone and homeless, has just aged out of the foster care system.\u00a0 Victoria&#8217;s knowledge of the sentiments conveyed by flowers proves to be her salvation and leads to employment with a florist.\u00a0 Gruff, defensive Victoria cautiously begins to bloom in her new life, until a life-altering event derails her delicate progress.\u00a0 In alternating chapters, Diffenbaugh weaves Victoria&#8217;s past and present until the two meet in a tender conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Victorian times, plants and flowers held symbolic meaning: you might give your love interest a bouquet of tulips (declaration of love), your enemy one of tansy (I declare war against you).\u00a0 In Diffenbaugh&#8217;s novel, eighteen-year-old Victoria, alone and homeless, has just aged out of the foster care system.\u00a0 Victoria&#8217;s knowledge of the sentiments conveyed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}