{"id":4644,"date":"2011-02-10T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:48:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:48:32","slug":"the-poinsettia-plant-was-named-after-joel-poinsett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-poinsettia-plant-was-named-after-joel-poinsett\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poinsettia Plant Was Named After Joel Poinsett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-the-name-poinsettia-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4645\" title=\"where the name poinsettia came from\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-the-name-poinsettia-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-the-name-poinsettia-c.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-the-name-poinsettia-c-340x192.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poinsettias are not poisonous\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/poinsettias-are-not-poisonous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Poinsettia Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Poinsettia plant was named after Joel Robert Poinsett, who was an American ambassador to Mexico around 1829.\u00a0 Poinsett was an amateur botanist and liked the plant so much that he sent several back to his home in South Carolina where he grew them in his green house and introduced the United States to the plant.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Poinsettia Facts Text Version The Poinsettia plant was named after Joel Robert Poinsett, who was an American ambassador to Mexico around 1829.\u00a0 Poinsett was an amateur botanist and liked the plant so much that he sent several back to his home in South Carolina where he grew them in his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1258,1257],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-holiday-tradition","tag-poinsettia-etymology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7079,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/7079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}