{"id":6937,"date":"2020-04-30T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2020-04-29T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T16:20:08","slug":"alton-florist-opens-doors-after-quarantining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/shopping\/alton-florist-opens-doors-after-quarantining-20200430","title":{"rendered":"Alton Florist Opens Doors After Quarantining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Alton Florist is gearing up for spring and Mother&#8217;s Day. Although the store has kept primarily closed during this season of quarantine, the employees are preparing for open doors on Monday, May 4, 2020. At that time, Governor Parson is instituting Phase one of Recovery. This is discussed in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/first-phase-of-recovery-announced-by-governor-parson-20200428\">article<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite social distancing staying in place, the store is open and no official limit as to the number of customers allowed in the store.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Purchases Flowers?<\/h2>\n<p>A note to remember is that school children will not be in school preceding Mother&#8217;s Day. Therefore, these children will Not be bringing home homemade crafts for their mothers. That being said, it is the father&#8217;s honor to make the mother of his children feel special and loved on the day. Flowers express beauty and love.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the holiday, fresh flowers around the house make the indoors smell fresh. Bright colors provide a cheery atmosphere.<\/p>\n<h2>Details Of Hours<\/h2>\n<p>The Alton Florist will resume the open hours of 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Saturday hours are 9:00 a.m. until noon.\u00a0 It is open daily Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Alton Florist has plenty of fresh flowers available. Additionally, they offer free local delivery in the Alton area. The Florist does have a phone number available to answer questions. It is 417-778-7693.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alton Florist is gearing up for spring and Mother&#8217;s Day after this season of quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[250,258,201,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}