{"id":1002,"date":"2005-02-03T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2005-02-03T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T00:01:55","slug":"miraclegros_hor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Miracle-Gro&#8217;s Horace Hagedon Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/01\/obituaries\/01hagedorn.html?ex=1264741200&#038;en=c85978ec1eacfbe9&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Douglas Martin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Miracle-Gro, which produced the world&#8217;s biggest cabbage, cantaloupe and dahlia, soon became as familiar a sight in the American backyard as the station wagon in the carport. The gardening business is now estimated to exceed $35 billion in annual sales, and Miracle-Gro&#8217;s share of the home fertilizer market is estimated to be about 85 percent.<br \/>\nMr. Hagedorn orchestrated the growth of his product like the marketing genius he was. He hired a Norman Rockwell colleague to paint homey advertisements, and the actor James Whitmore, whose gnarled face suggested a trustworthy farmer, for television commercials. The $100,000 prize he offered for a tomato of world record size was conditional on the use of a certain plant food.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Martin: Miracle-Gro, which produced the world&#8217;s biggest cabbage, cantaloupe and dahlia, soon became as familiar a sight in the American backyard as the station wagon in the carport. The gardening business is now estimated to exceed $35 billion in annual sales, and Miracle-Gro&#8217;s share of the home fertilizer market is estimated to be about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}