{"id":279,"date":"2007-11-06T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-11-13T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T11:51:42","slug":"bulb-labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Bulb labyrinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"images\/group_shotx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"labyrinth ditched out\" SRC=\"images\/group_shotx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I helped Cornell bulb expert Bill Miller and his class prepare a bulb labyrinth for planting at the Bluegrass Lane Research Center.  Center manager Ron White ran a sod stripper over the pattern Bill laid out yesterday.  And today the students excavated the trench where the bulbs &#8212; daffodils, tulips and muscari &#8212; will be planted next week.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has a single convoluted path to the center.  Go ahead.  Trace it with your finger following the grass path that will be defined by the bulb planting.  (Much easier with the <a HREF=\"images\/group_shotx1200.jpg\">larger image<\/a>.) It&#8217;s an ancient, contemplative tradition.  Read much more about it at the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.labyrinthos.net\/f_homepage.htm\">Labyrinthos website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> [11\/13\/2007]: Nice coverage of the project in the Cornell Chronicle:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/Nov07\/labyrinth.bulbs.sl.html\">Student-created labyrinth plants the way for a perennial path to peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, I helped Cornell bulb expert Bill Miller and his class prepare a bulb labyrinth for planting at the Bluegrass Lane Research Center. Center manager Ron White ran a sod stripper over the pattern Bill laid out yesterday. And today the students excavated the trench where the bulbs &#8212; daffodils, tulips and muscari &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulb labyrinth&#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":[13,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}