{"id":5026,"date":"2010-03-29T01:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2010-03-29T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:16:06","slug":"buffalo-news-planting-for-plenitude-of-pussy-willows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2010\/03\/buffalo-news-planting-for-plenitude-of-pussy-willows\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News: Planting for plenitude of pussy willows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.buffalonews.com\/static\/multimedia\/player\/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.2.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value='config={\"key\":\"#@80bef946446a83fe371\",\"clip\":{\"autoPlay\":false},\"playlist\":[{\"url\":\"http:\/\/buffalonews-video.s3.amazonaws.com\/032710dyngus.flv\"}],\"canvas\":{\"backgroundColor\":\"#111111\",\"backgroundGradient\":[0],\"backgroundImage\":\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/player-splash.png\"}}' \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I just love this time of year in B-F&#8230;an incredible amount of media attention&#8230;ALIVE!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two years ago, a paucity of pussy willows threatened to put the kibosh on Buffalo\u2019s annual Dyngus Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Remember? Frigid weather delayed the budding process, raising the possibility that there wouldn\u2019t be enough locally grown switches for girls to swat boys with during the flirting ritual that highlights the traditional Polish day-after-Easter observance. Branches were imported from great distances to meet the surging demand.<\/p>\n<p>Vowing to nip future shortages in the bud, Dyngus Day Buffalo organizers gathered Saturday near Central Terminal to plant five bushes in what was christened Pussy Willow Park. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/2010\/03\/28\/1001687\/planting-for-plenitude-of-pussy.html\">read full story at the Buffalo News<\/a>&#8212;>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love this time of year in B-F&#8230;an incredible amount of media attention&#8230;ALIVE! Two years ago, a paucity of pussy willows threatened to put<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,1,5,8],"tags":[129,128],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alive-multimedia","category-news","category-bf-people","category-b-f-places","tag-dyngus-day","tag-dyngus-day-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-1j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}