{"id":16402,"date":"2011-04-26T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16402"},"modified":"2011-04-26T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:03:28","slug":"horticultures-continuing-pr-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16402","title":{"rendered":"Horticulture&#8217;s Continuing PR Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>In a March 12, 2011 issue of <em>The New York Times,<\/em> in a column by Maureen Dowd  entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/13\/opinion\/13dowd.html?adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1300129203-H+sXNUDNEuPGnRJYlqpnEQ\">&#8220;In Search of Monsters,&#8221;<\/a>  Ms. Dowd comments on the suitability of Donald Rumsfeld giving current foreign policy advice:   &#8220;You would think that [he] would have the good manners to shut up and take up horticulture.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Politics aside,  I just can&#8217;t get over Ms. Dowd&#8217;s back-handed slap at horticulture. <\/p>\n<p><small>Mr. Rumsfeld, coming to a community garden near you.<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/imagesrum.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a March 12, 2011 issue of The New York Times, in a column by Maureen Dowd entitled &#8220;In Search of Monsters,&#8221; Ms. Dowd comments on the suitability of Donald Rumsfeld giving current foreign policy advice: &#8220;You would think that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[550],"tags":[764,509,491],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-4gy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16402"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16420,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402\/revisions\/16420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}