{"id":515,"date":"2020-09-01T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=515"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:54:59","slug":"green-thumb-of-a-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Green Thumb. Of a Sort."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty.jpg 975w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Garden_Bounty-705x705.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><figcaption>See? The cucumbers did actually grow. We have had several from my plants so far&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Every time I look at a vegetable garden, my first impression is that I just can&#8217;t see why anyone would bother. Strange, I know, given the fact that I have a garden myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stranger still, given that I know what can come out of a garden. Somehow, I just can&#8217;t shake the notion that there isn&#8217;t much there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Even if I can conjure up a cutting board like this in a matter of a couple of minutes out in the garden. And then a couple of days later I can do it again.<\/li><li>Even if my mother&#8211;in-law (who, admittedly, has quite the garden) can come in with endless armloads of produce <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as if I have some sort of an inherent inability to accept that you can actually get a lot of produce out of a small garden. I&#8217;m actually at the point now where I just ignore my first impressions and I start picking. There always seems to be more than enough out there, even if I have to sample all kinds of things along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, my God, it tastes great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I look at a vegetable garden, my first impression is that I just can&#8217;t see why anyone would bother. Strange, I know, given the fact that I have a garden myself. Stranger still, given that I know what can come out of a garden. Somehow, I just can&#8217;t shake the notion that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-grow","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}