{"id":10255,"date":"2011-05-04T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2011-05-04T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:29:18","slug":"a-garden-some-latin-ai-weiwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10255","title":{"rendered":"A Garden, Some Latin, Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Last Frost Moon<\/p>\n<p>The potatoes are in the ground.\u00a0 The lettuce has two leaves, as does the spinach, a few beets have emerged.\u00a0 The leeks look a bit droopy, but they&#8217;ll pick up.\u00a0 The garlic is well over 6 inches now as it makes the final push for harvest in late June, early July.\u00a0 None of the carrots have germinated yet and most of the beets have not either. The onion sets we planted have<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10258\" title=\"cropped-free-ai-weiwei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped-free-ai-weiwei.png\" alt=\"cropped-free-ai-weiwei\" width=\"257\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped-free-ai-weiwei.png 257w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped-free-ai-weiwei-137x300.png 137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/> mostly begun to show green.\u00a0 The bees show up now around the property, working as we do, tending the plants in their own, intimate way.\u00a0 The gooseberries we transplanted look very healthy.\u00a0 The daffodils are a carpet of yellow and white.\u00a0 A few scylla out front brighten up the walk with their blue.<\/p>\n<p>Most of today went into Diana and Actaeon.\u00a0 I&#8217;m down to verse 227, the finish line is 250.\u00a0 I&#8217;m close and moving faster now than I was.\u00a0 One of the things I&#8217;ve learned is that doing this at a pace which would allow you to complete a project in a reasonable time frame would require real skill.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a hobby Ovidist, to be a Latin scholar would take decades.\u00a0 Who knows though?\u00a0 I might make it.\u00a0 When I finish this first tale in the Metamorphosis, I&#8217;m going to have some kind of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Mark Odegard has come up with three remarkable designs for a Free Ai Weiwei t-shirt.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an example and the one most seem to prefer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Last Frost Moon The potatoes are in the ground.\u00a0 The lettuce has two leaves, as does the spinach, a few beets have emerged.\u00a0 The leeks look a bit droopy, but they&#8217;ll pick up.\u00a0 The garlic is well over 6 inches now as it makes the final push for harvest in late June, early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Garden, Some Latin, Ai Weiwei<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,290,1268,1980,11,87,100,10],"tags":[3273,4375,665,542,379,4377,1609,169,1314,1642,3265,2400,268],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia","category-bees","category-commentary-on-the-news","category-friends","category-garden","category-politics","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-ai-weiwei","tag-bees","tag-carrots","tag-daffodils","tag-garlic","tag-latin","tag-leeks","tag-mark","tag-ovid","tag-potatoes","tag-scylla","tag-spinach","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}