{"id":4063,"date":"2020-06-01T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2020-06-01T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:49:22","slug":"the-natural-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/06\/01\/the-natural-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural In Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATURE SUBMISSION:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all natural,\u201d Kathy tells Gordon, her teenaged son. \u201cWe don\u2019t use pesticides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tears lettuce into bite-size pieces. Radishes lie on the chopping board next in line for the salad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut chemicals can fall from rain,\u201d replies Gordon. He fills a glass with filtered water.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno, seen through a window, is crouching between rows of spinach and lettuce in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon cringes. \u201cSo much for natural. Think of all the junk that dog picks up along the way in his daily romps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s nature,\u201d says Kathy. \u201cCan\u2019t help what one is meant to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertified organic?\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She resides in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, stuffed animals and many friends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATURE SUBMISSION: \u201cIt\u2019s all natural,\u201d Kathy tells Gordon, her teenaged son. \u201cWe don\u2019t use pesticides.\u201d She tears lettuce into bite-size pieces. Radishes lie on the chopping board next in line for the salad. \u201cBut chemicals can fall from rain,\u201d replies Gordon. He fills a glass with filtered water. Bruno, seen through a window, is crouching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3144,7465,213,419,2133,855,9061,3744,9060,9065,6121,4880,9062,1414,9064,1500,1730,9063,177,1841],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chemicals","tag-chopping-board","tag-dog","tag-garden","tag-glass","tag-junk","tag-lettuce","tag-nature","tag-nature-contest","tag-organic","tag-pesticides","tag-pieces","tag-radishes","tag-rain","tag-romps","tag-salad","tag-son","tag-spinach","tag-water","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}