{"id":4244,"date":"2020-08-24T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T02:08:44","slug":"the-botanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/08\/24\/the-botanist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Botanist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HUBRIS CONTEST: <\/p>\n<p>Settled at the picnic table, I was teaching my three-year old granddaughter, Natalie, the process of planting seeds. Surrounded by supplies: seeds, cardboard egg cartons, a bag of soil, a big spoon and a spray bottle filled with water, Natalie carefully filled each section of the egg carton with soil. All the while I explained to her how seeds grow into plants if they have sun, water and food. I believed that she thoroughly understood. She was seriously working. <\/p>\n<p>Grandpa joined us and asked, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are growing eggs!\u201d Natalie boasted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d better wait till she\u2019s four. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Patricia Gable<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUBRIS CONTEST: Settled at the picnic table, I was teaching my three-year old granddaughter, Natalie, the process of planting seeds. Surrounded by supplies: seeds, cardboard egg cartons, a bag of soil, a big spoon and a spray bottle filled with water, Natalie carefully filled each section of the egg carton with soil. All the while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2654,9370,8676,9372,1098,2484,3265,41,9280,9369,4573,1499,9371,7201,2197,4123,2647,9373,1531,2667,177,9374],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bag","tag-botanist","tag-cardboard","tag-egg-cartons","tag-food","tag-granddaughter","tag-grandpa","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hubris-contest","tag-patricia-gable","tag-picnic-table","tag-plants","tag-process","tag-section","tag-seeds","tag-soil","tag-spoon","tag-spray-bottle","tag-sun","tag-supplies","tag-water","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}