{"id":26479,"date":"2012-02-05T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2012-02-05T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:32:47","slug":"garden-of-flowing-fragrance-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26479","title":{"rendered":"garden of flowing fragrance in miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The architectural scale model of the Huntington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=1212\">Garden of Flowing Fragrance<\/a>, Phase One completed and opened to the pubic in February 2008.  The scale model was mesmerizing.  A miniaturized, perfect world unto itself.  I haven&#8217;t seen Phase I yet of the actual garden.  I am such a philistine when it comes to Asian gardens and get none of the symbolism and associations.<\/p>\n<p>From the handout:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Huntington&#8217;s new Chinese garden currently covers five of the allotted 12 acres and includes a lake, seven pavilions, and five stone bridges, built by more than 60 Suzhou artisans from authentic materials shipped from China.  The garden includes &#8216;poetic views,&#8217; and natural and architectural features set amid plants native to China and rich in literary associations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/2212hbg027-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/2212hbg022-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/2212hbg025-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/2212hbg026-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/25morn003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architectural scale model of the Huntington&#8217;s Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Phase One completed and opened to the pubic in February 2008. The scale model was mesmerizing. A miniaturized, perfect world unto itself. I haven&#8217;t seen Phase I yet of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=26479\">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":[551,112],"tags":[1775,344,1776,1777],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-6T5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26504,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions\/26504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}