{"id":40588,"date":"2013-04-23T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=40588"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:02:51","slug":"in-love-with-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=40588","title":{"rendered":"in love with my garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>It&#8217;s Earth Day.  Or the day after, to be exact.  Let&#8217;s hope being a day late is not a portent of things to come.  So this morning after, I&#8217;m sending mash notes to Earth for making my little garden possible.  I want to thank photosynthesis for everything you do.  I want to give special thanks to the atmosphere, to rocks, to continental drift.  Who am I  forgetting?  Oceans, plankton, magma.  You know who you are.  I couldn&#8217;t have done it without you.  You too, moon and tides.  I also want to thank my latitude, nighttime pollinators.  Oh, there&#8217;s just too many to thank, and I don&#8217;t want to forget anyone.  I couldn&#8217;t have done it without you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010693.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010693.jpg\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010754.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010754.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010833.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010833.jpg\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010840.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010840.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010477.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010477.jpg\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2013\/P1010645.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1010645.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth, I owe everything I am to you.<br \/>\n(title inspired by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/in-love-with-my-planet.html?ref=opinion\">In Love With My Planet<\/a>.&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This work is not about landscapes. It is about love<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Earth Day. Or the day after, to be exact. Let&#8217;s hope being a day late is not a portent of things to come. So this morning after, I&#8217;m sending mash notes to Earth for making my little garden possible. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=40588\">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":[36,1897],"tags":[2767,2662,2768,2770,2134,2765,2769,968,491],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-ayE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588"}],"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=40588"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87286,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions\/87286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}