{"id":1354,"date":"2011-11-12T06:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remarc.com\/craig\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2011-11-12T06:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:33:46","slug":"dryden-beautification-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Dryden Beautification Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/year_at_ellis_hollow.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/dryden_presentationx300.jpg\" alt=\"the year at ellis hollow\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I had the distinct honor of giving a presentation at the season-end celebration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Dryden-Beautification-Brigade\/285022834860795\">Dryden Beautification Brigade.<\/a> These volunteers do a great job planting and maintaining planters and public gardens around the village.  <\/p>\n<p>After viewing a slideshow of them in action, I told them that if any local government had to pay full retail for plantings like these, they&#8217;d never happen.  It&#8217;s great to see the pride this group has for their community and the energy they put into their beautification efforts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a public speaker.  So I overwhelmed them with slides chronicling the year in my garden.  Several of the brigaders asked if I&#8217;d put the presentation on line so they could go back and capture the names of plants they want to try but didn&#8217;t have a chance to jot down.  <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/year_at_ellis_hollow.pdf\">So here it is, all 31 MB<\/a>.  So be patient.  It&#8217;s a long download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the distinct honor of giving a presentation at the season-end celebration of the Dryden Beautification Brigade. These volunteers do a great job planting and maintaining planters and public gardens around the village. After viewing a slideshow of them in action, I told them that if any local government had to pay full retail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dryden Beautification Brigade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}