{"id":16766,"date":"2011-05-05T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2015-08-09T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T21:23:55","slug":"missing-boxwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16766","title":{"rendered":"Missing Boxwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>  House on the corner.  Famous in the neighborhood for at one time housing local band the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War_Kids\">Cold War Kids<\/a> and their legendary late-night poker parties.  Bare, packed earth, a memory of lawn haunting the hardscrabble front yard.  A single boxwood sphere, the lone relic of a bygone garden, managed to eke out a rotund, dense, and surprisingly healthy existence near the foundation in spite of such malevolent neglect, and always had a cheering effect on me as I turned the corner into my street.  I often thought of asking permission to dig it up, since no one seemed to care anyway, and over the years &#8212; at least 20 years that I know of, but possibly quite a few more &#8212;  it had managed to grow under such lean and spiteful conditions into a beautiful, tight green orb, about 4X4.   Today, after years of inattention, a new landscape was installed, possibly signaling a change in landlords, and guess what got the boot?  Yep, that boxwood sphere that defied the odds for so many years was scrapped, cast aside in a broken heap.  I nearly piled into an oncoming car as I turned that corner coming home from work last night to find the cheerful survivor struck down.    Damn, I should&#8217;ve asked.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may%202011\/chateau_amboise.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Photo found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makebeleaves.com\/chateau_ambroise\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nCold War Kids <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D6CWBgLbrD4\">&#8220;Something Is Not Right With Me&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House on the corner. Famous in the neighborhood for at one time housing local band the Cold War Kids and their legendary late-night poker parties. Bare, packed earth, a memory of lawn haunting the hardscrabble front yard. A single boxwood &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16766\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[551],"tags":[1037,1038,1039],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-boxwood","tag-cold-war-kids","tag-something-is-not-right-with-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-4mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67772,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/67772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}