{"id":535,"date":"2010-06-25T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=535"},"modified":"2010-06-25T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:50:11","slug":"a-miracle-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"A Miracle in the Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>My friend and neighbor Patricia met me at my dead blueberry bush this morning (the latest casualty in the weed eater wars), and we stood there feeling sad together.\u00c2\u00a0 She asked if there was any hope at all, and I stooped down to show her the dry dead sticks poking up from the ground.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#39;s when I noticed one small scrap of life.\u00c2\u00a0 A tiny sprig remains where only days ago there was a small bush.<\/p>\n<p \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4733381902\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1016\/4733381902_475a959891.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>Patricia and I gave it some Miracle Grow and put some pine straw padding around it.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#39;t know if there is any hope for it or not, but I will at least try to save it.<\/p>\n<p \/> If only the blueberry had the tenacity of this mint.<\/p>\n<p \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4733383556\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1328\/4733383556_05b2864216.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>The mint is a remnant of an old abandoned herb bed.\u00c2\u00a0 For years, the lawn mower has been cutting it down with the grass.\u00c2\u00a0 When I decided I wanted to plant tomatoes there this year, I pulled it all up by the roots.\u00c2\u00a0 I shoveled out the spot.\u00c2\u00a0 I turned the dirt over repeatedly.\u00c2\u00a0 I put a raised bed over it and filled in with about eight inches of new dirt. I planted my tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p \/> There is mint growing under my tomato plants.\u00c2\u00a0 It just won&#39;t give up.      <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/sharongerald.posterous.com\/a-miracle-in-the-making-0\">Just Haphazardry<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and neighbor Patricia met me at my dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}