{"id":1503,"date":"2021-08-06T01:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2021-08-06T01:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:16:26","slug":"a-welcome-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"A Welcome Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2020-060605-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a gorgeous rainy day \u2014 and I say gorgeous because we need the rain \u2014 and the garden is thriving. Still working on one area for redesign, but I love when I can start seeing the vision come together \u2014 it\u2019s like when you\u2019re writing or painting and it takes a while and then all of a sudden, there it is, you\u2019re almost there and you can see it. In the meantime, elderberries are ripening and I need to get some before the birds beat me to all of them. They\u2019re great for cordials and immunity boosting syrups. The grapes are blowing my mind, and now that I realize how easy it is to make grape juice, that\u2019ll be on the post-harvest to-do list. Dahlias, coneflowers, and glads are all bursting with blooms, we\u2019ve had a few beans and blueberries, and before long the beach plums will be ripening. That\u2019s just a taste of what we pack into this wee plot of land tucked in between the larger properties that surround us. It\u2019s not really necessary to go big to grow good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a gorgeous rainy day \u2014 and I say gorgeous because we need the rain \u2014 and the garden is thriving. Still working on one area for redesign, but I love when I can start seeing the vision come together \u2014 it\u2019s like when you\u2019re writing or painting and it takes a while and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Welcome Rain&#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":[624,625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}