{"id":8570,"date":"2014-05-02T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:30:39","slug":"not-your-typical-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/02\/not-your-typical-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your typical Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Penjing2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8571\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Penjing2.jpg\" alt=\"Penjing2\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Penjing2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Penjing2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Penjing2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She will show it to everyone, brag about it for years to come, possess something almost nobody does and you will be her star! That\u2019s the promise we make for this <strong>Mother\u2019s Day<\/strong> at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden\u2019s <strong>Penjing Sale<\/strong>, <strong>May 10 <\/strong>and<strong> 11 <\/strong>from<strong> <span data-term=\"goog_713745636\">10 am \u2013 4 pm<\/span>. <\/strong>Entrance to the penjing show and sale included in Garden admission. Penjing price from $5 &#8211; $50.<\/p>\n<p>Practiced in China for over 2000 years, <em>penjing<\/em> means a potted landscape and it canbealmost anything found in a natural landscape and reduced to miniature proportions. In order to keep the <em>penjing<\/em> in the desired shape and scale, the branches, leaves, and even the roots must be pruned to achieve the correct proportion. Even the pot or tray in which the <em>penjing<\/em> is made must bring out the beauty, elegance and sublimity of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>For these two days only you can see the exhibition of the Penjing Club\u2019s prized <em>penjing<\/em> and purchase your own living sculptures. Pin Lee, Garden\u2019s Penjing Master and other <em>penjing <\/em>experts will be on hand with tips on how to care for this fascinating live art form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She will show it to everyone, brag about it for years to come, possess something almost nobody does and you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[2757],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events","tag-not-your-typical-mothers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}