{"id":680,"date":"2009-06-05T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=680"},"modified":"2009-06-05T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:09:39","slug":"comments-garden-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Comments: Garden cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do tend to comment here and there throughout the garden blogosphere.  I think that when I have something worth commenting on, I&#8217;ll start posting them here, as well.   This is the first.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Stewart in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenrant.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/06\/garden-writing-cliches-id-like-to-ban.html\">a post at GardenRant<\/a> says she doesn&#8217;t like the false choice posed by the cliche, &#8220;&#8221;Who says organic gardens can&#8217;t be beautiful?&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>My comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My least favorite in catalogs and plant databases:  &#8216;Prefers consistently moist, well-drained soil.&#8217;  Well I prefer ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>The <strike>corollary<\/strike> implication is that you should create consistently moist, well-drained soil at a great cost of sweat and treasure instead of finding plants that will thrive in the soil you&#8217;ve got.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do tend to comment here and there throughout the garden blogosphere. I think that when I have something worth commenting on, I&#8217;ll start posting them here, as well. This is the first. Amy Stewart in a post at GardenRant says she doesn&#8217;t like the false choice posed by the cliche, &#8220;&#8221;Who says organic gardens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comments: Garden cliches&#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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}