{"id":1162,"date":"2026-03-24T02:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:59:30","slug":"lucky-strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/lucky-strawberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Strawberries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I found the exact strawberry variety I was looking for.  I was at a big box store yesterday and though they had a ton of strawberry plants, they were all mystery variety.  Walked into a small hardware store today and shazam, there they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I went to checkout, the cashier told me I had a 5 dollar coupon.  Shazam again, I walked out with six strawberry starts for two bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s something to this luck business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I also did something at work I&#8217;ve never done before:  saw my supervisor&#8217;s door open and I just walked in for some chat.  Usually I go into work, get to my desk and heads down as quickly as possible.  And hope nobody comes by to talk to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m growing my tribe.  And strawberries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AlbionStrawberryPlant-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found the exact strawberry variety I was looking for. I was at a big box store yesterday and though they had a ton of strawberry plants, they were all mystery variety. Walked into a small hardware store today and shazam, there they were. When I went to checkout, the cashier told me I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}