{"id":31426,"date":"2025-01-24T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/life-may-stink-but-so-does-putricia-and-i-love-her-for-it-rebecca-shaw\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:42:09","slug":"life-may-stink-but-so-does-putricia-and-i-love-her-for-it-rebecca-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/life-may-stink-but-so-does-putricia-and-i-love-her-for-it-rebecca-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Life may stink, but so does Putricia \u2013 and I love her for it | Rebecca Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corpse flower has allowed me and thousands of others to check out from the noise for a few days and honour the glorious spectacle of nature<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Occasionally in this difficult life, during times of extended bleakness, we are blessed with something that comes along and captures our collective attention, bonding us, and bringing us joy. This week, Madame Putricia entered our lives. If you aren\u2019t aware of who she is, I\u2019m sorry your life lacks glory \u2013 but also congratulations on not living on the internet (I suppose).<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful Putricia is a corpse flower that has been on display at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. Over the past few days, she has been visited by thousands and watched online by thousands more, as she slowwwwly bloomed and released her wondrous stench for the first time in 15 years. It is Putricia\u2019s prerogative to take her sweet time \u2013 and so she did.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/24\/life-may-stink-but-so-does-putricia-and-i-love-her-for-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corpse flower has allowed me and thousands of others to check out from the noise for a few days and honour the glorious spectacle of nature Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Occasionally in this difficult life, during times of extended bleakness, we are blessed with something that comes &#8230; <a title=\"Life may stink, but so does Putricia \u2013 and I love her for it | Rebecca Shaw\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/life-may-stink-but-so-does-putricia-and-i-love-her-for-it-rebecca-shaw\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Life may stink, but so does Putricia \u2013 and I love her for it | Rebecca Shaw\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}