{"id":8798,"date":"2018-08-18T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2018-08-18T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:46:33","slug":"those-were-not-mullable-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/those-were-not-mullable-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Were Not Mullable Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/65\/Rosa_multiflora_a03.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiflora Rose&#8212;By \u03a364 [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>There is no such thing as a mullable rose.<\/p>\n<p>And yet there is because that&#8217;s what Grandma called them and I had seen them. They had to exist. I really doubted Grandma had discovered a new plant.<\/p>\n<p>Years later I discovered a reference to something referred to as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov\/plants\/multiflorarose.shtml\">multiflora rose<\/a>. Based upon the discussion and the description, I thought it was odd that I had never heard of the plant before.<\/p>\n<p>And then I saw the picture. There was Grandma&#8217;s mullable rose.<\/p>\n<p>The word was not &#8220;mullable.&#8221; It was &#8220;multiflora.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I heard Grandma wrong. Maybe Grandma said it wrong. Maybe Grandma heard it wrong. Maybe all three.<\/p>\n<p>When you can&#8217;t find that maiden name that Grandma insists is true consider how off the pronunciation may be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no such thing as a mullable rose. And yet there is because that&#8217;s what Grandma called them and I had seen them. They had to exist. I really doubted Grandma had discovered a new plant. Years later I discovered a reference to something referred to as the multiflora rose. Based upon the discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}