{"id":691,"date":"2005-05-12T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/let-grow\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T07:00:47","slug":"let-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/let-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I like the simplest definition of a weed: a plant you don&#8217;t want growing where it grows.<\/p>\n<p>My wife, Merri, is not only a great gardener, she is also a great weeder. I lack the energy. I think, hell, if it made it there, give it a chance. Almost anything is preferable to the zero-scape of gravel.<\/p>\n<p>So, perhaps I&#8217;m the only person in Albuquerque who enjoyed the lush mustard growth brought on by extra rain (some call it London Rocket, a very odd name). I thought it was quite pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I understand there are genuinely noxious plants, like the beautiful-until-it&#8217;s-too-late foxtail, the goatheads, and the water-sucking tamarisk. I understand the &#8220;exotics,&#8221; the imports, can completely overrun the natives, but we do that ourselves as people &#8212; who are we to judge the weeds. Ripping out what grows naturally seems futile. Try leaving something alone now and then. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LuckyDog among the weeds.\" src=\"luckyweeds.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"700\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the simplest definition of a weed: a plant you don&#8217;t want growing where it grows. My wife, Merri, is not only a great gardener, she is also a great weeder. I lack the energy. I think, hell, if it made it there, give it a chance. Almost anything is preferable to the zero-scape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/let-grow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let Grow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}