{"id":5293,"date":"2022-10-11T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:21:44","slug":"platero-and-i-ode-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/10\/11\/platero-and-i-ode-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Platero And I: Ode In The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They say my garden is wild, Platero, as is my hair &#8211; Martha would be ashamed if she saw this garden.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t they know this garden is an ode to Martha?<\/p>\n<p>That every year when the leaves lose grip, I prune erratic. I seek your approval, Platero, because you\u2018ve seen Martha do it so often.<\/p>\n<p>That hedge over there: sloppy and unevenly shaven; the bushes butterflies like to sit on, brusquely stripped of their thick branches &#8211; hopefully none vital.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why this garden is an ode to Martha: because I\u2019m lost without her and not just in the garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Herv\u00e9 Suys<\/p>\n<p>Herv\u00e9 (\u00b01968 \u2013 Ronse, Belgium) started writing short stories whilst recovering from a sports injury and he hasn\u2019t stopped since. Generally he writes them hatless and barefooted.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say my garden is wild, Platero, as is my hair &#8211; Martha would be ashamed if she saw this garden. Don&#8217;t they know this garden is an ode to Martha? That every year when the leaves lose grip, I prune erratic. I seek your approval, Platero, because you\u2018ve seen Martha do it so often. [&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":[11371,2200,9238,943,419,41,1291,11372,9028,2658,551,11370,3995],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-approval","tag-branches","tag-bushes","tag-butterflies","tag-garden","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hedge","tag-herve-suys","tag-leaves","tag-lost","tag-ode","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}