{"id":1316,"date":"2010-02-22T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2010-02-22T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T04:04:21","slug":"we-must-cultivate-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/we-must-cultivate-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Cultivate Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/herbgarden.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor Herb Garden\" title=\"Indoor Herb Garden\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/herbgarden.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/herbgarden-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite books of all time is <em>Candide<\/em> by Voltaire &#8211; in my opinion, a perfect reflection of the nature of humans and evidence that humanity doesn&#8217;t evolve and history repeats itself (I&#8217;m a cynic at times). One of my favorite lines comes at the end when Candide says, &#8220;We must cultivate our garden.&#8221; A marking of the end of their misery, the characters that withstood are able to embrace happiness in hard, simple labor. <\/p>\n<p>I think in my utopian dream world, I&#8217;d be self-sustaining. I&#8217;ll start by growing my own herbs for cooking: I spent my snowed-in Sunday afternoon watering and fluffing 72 peat moss pods and filling them up with Thyme, Rosemary &#038; Lavender seeds. It was refreshing. I can&#8217;t wait to smell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite books of all time is Candide by Voltaire &#8211; in my opinion, a perfect reflection of the nature of humans and evidence that humanity doesn&#8217;t evolve and history repeats itself (I&#8217;m a cynic at times). One of my favorite lines comes at the end when Candide says, &#8220;We must cultivate our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}