{"id":2167,"date":"2009-03-25T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2009-03-25T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:10:10","slug":"let-the-grass-green-and-the-plants-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Let The Grass Green And The Plants Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon<\/p>\n<p>Lunch with Paul today at Origami.\u00a0 When I lunch with friends, I find we often go back to the same place we first went, even after years and years.\u00a0 I had lunch with an old friend last month and we returned to Gallery 8 at the Walker even though it had been seven or eight years since our last meal together.<\/p>\n<p>Today and tomorrow I have tours to prepare, and I&#8217;d best get to them.\u00a0 Nuclear hearing tonight at 6:30.\u00a0 Lots of stuff happening right now.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling a bit distracted, maybe over stimulated, but it won&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the thunder storm in this blog and the couple of days of rain, but when I woke up to snow this morning I had to get on and say, enough.\u00a0 I mean, really.\u00a0 OK, I know it&#8217;s not unusual, that March is a snowy month, that winter lingers, yes, but even so, enough.\u00a0 Let the grass green and the plants grow.\u00a0 Let some color appear.<\/p>\n<p>A friend has decided to head to the Smoky Mountains next week to hike and see some green. I get it.<\/p>\n<p>This is not cabin fever, I don&#8217;t have a longing to be somewhere else, somewhere warm; but, I do have a hankering for growth.<\/p>\n<p>There, that&#8217;s off my chest.\u00a0 On another, similar note, my seedlings have gone from the sprouting stage to the small leafy stage.\u00a0 This is onion, kale, chard, eggplant, huckleberry, leeks, broccoli and cauliflower.\u00a0 On Monday I put them all in separate peat and coca pots, getting my hands in the potting soil.\u00a0 That took care of some of my green desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon Lunch with Paul today at Origami.\u00a0 When I lunch with friends, I find we often go back to the same place we first went, even after years and years.\u00a0 I had lunch with an old friend last month and we returned to Gallery 8 at the Walker even though it had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let The Grass Green And The Plants Grow<\/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":[11,87,9,336],"tags":[1479,1480,390,268],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-garden","category-great-work","category-permaculture","tag-nuclear","tag-paul-strickland","tag-rain","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","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=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}