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\"Dandelion<\/a>

Dandelion spores<\/p><\/div>\n

I caught a lot of these as a kid and released them as wishes. I only ever wished for one thing. I called them Dandelion spores, but Laura Hyatt says “They are apomictic seeds. Dandelions are higher plants.” Thanks, Laura!<\/p>\n

tags: wishes, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, postaday2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I caught a lot of these as a kid and released them as wishes. I only ever wished for one thing. I called them Dandelion spores, but Laura Hyatt says “They are apomictic seeds. Dandelions are higher plants.” Thanks, Laura! tags: wishes, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, postaday2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[335,411,457,599,674,717],"class_list":{"0":"post-5953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-gimp","8":"tag-inkscape","9":"tag-languages","10":"tag-open-source","11":"tag-programming","12":"tag-scalable-vector-graphics","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1y1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5953,"position":0},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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