{"id":90172,"date":"2021-06-26T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90172"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:51:07","slug":"cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;first line is the last line of <em>Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind<\/em>  by Peter Godfrey-Smith<\/p>\n<p><em>We enter a garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p>on an official garden tour<br \/>\nwith the intent to steal ideas<\/p>\n<p>a sculpture garden: art at every turn<br \/>\nwith the added bonus of photo ops<\/p>\n<p>a garden for the blind<br \/>\nto refine our sense of smell<\/p>\n<p>an herb garden<br \/>\nto connect with ancient wisdom<\/p>\n<p>a hospital garden to escape<br \/>\nor entertain obsessive thoughts<\/p>\n<p>a vegetable garden<br \/>\nto snitch or harvest<\/p>\n<p>in the bamboo garden<br \/>\nwhere the wind rustles<\/p>\n<p>learn to control your destructive impulses<br \/>\nin the raked sand and boulder Zen garden<\/p>\n<p>become even more self-controlled<br \/>\nin the succulent garden<\/p>\n<p>but be reminded that<br \/>\nwe are not alone<br \/>\nin the community garden<\/p>\n<p>and trust that our lives<br \/>\nfertilize the walled-off<br \/>\nsecret gardens of our minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;first line is the last line of Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith We enter a garden on an official garden tour with the intent to steal ideas a sculpture garden: art at every turn with the added bonus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90801,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90172\/revisions\/90801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}