{"id":220,"date":"2010-01-24T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-01-24T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:45:20","slug":"its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the rest of my environment looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4300850008\/\" title=\"IMG_0994 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4300850008_02e9d015d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0994\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mint in my yard looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4300852000\/\" title=\"IMG_0995 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4300852000_f9e3dcc67e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0995\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had freezes and floods and every kind of inclement weather.  The world is shrouded in winter gray, but still the mint thrives.  You can&#8217;t kill it.  Pull it up by the roots, and it grows right back.  When giant asteroids hit the earth and kill us all, the mint will be popping up through the rubble.  At least the roaches will have something to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the rest of my environment looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}