{"id":184,"date":"2010-03-23T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-04-30T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:48:28","slug":"benefits-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/benefits-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the last time you saw flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 Did you have an increase of energy or a burst of joy within your heart?\u00c2\u00a0 When it comes to getting smiles on faces and having people relax from the stress of life, it&#8217;s hard to beat flowers. Flowers (both the sight of them and the extracts taken) have been shown to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve sleep (Lavender)<\/li>\n<li>Decrease anxiety (Lavender)<\/li>\n<li>Decrease depression (Rose)<\/li>\n<li>Increase energy (the sight of almost any flower)<\/li>\n<li>Decrease cholesterol (Hibiscus)<\/li>\n<li>Lower blood pressure (Hawthorn)<\/li>\n<li>Improve resistance to colds (Echinacea)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you need a burst of energy?\u00c2\u00a0 Go smell a rose today!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_185\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" title=\"image1046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/image1046.jpg\" alt=\"image1046\" width=\"224\" height=\"182\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dried flowers as bright as the day they were picked!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the last time you saw flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 Did you have an increase of energy or a burst of joy within your heart?\u00c2\u00a0 When it comes to getting smiles on faces and having people relax from the stress of life, it&#8217;s hard to beat flowers. Flowers (both the sight of them and the extracts taken) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/benefits-of-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benefits of Flowers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[295],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","tag-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}