{"id":3063,"date":"2011-05-11T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2011-05-11T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:21:30","slug":"got-the-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"Got the Worm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up a little after five this morning, kilted, booted, and out the front door.\u00a0 You\u00a0can guess\u00a0what I did.\u00a0 I succumbed to the urge\u00a0to <a title=\"Making My Bed (but not lying in it)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2604\" target=\"_blank\">enlarge the Lorelei<\/a> just a little bit more. I added, oh, probably another 18-24 inches to the base of the L.\u00a0 I\u00a0plan to plant two varieties of bush beans separated by a cucmber trellis oriented north and south\u00a0to allow full sun on as many plants as possible.\u00a0 The amount I increased it on Saturday wasn&#8217;t quite enough for all that.<\/p>\n<p>Then off to Jones, yes Jones, where this early-bird got serenaded by a harmonious early-bird (the real\u00a0kind)\u00a0choir.\u00a0 I weeded and added leaf mold to the as-yet\u00a0unplanted part of the bed, making it easier for my wife and me to take a stroll to Jones this evening and quickly plant a few tomato and eggplant plants, smoothly slipping them into the billowy, light\u00a0soil, the result of my morning handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>Crack of dawn\u00a0gardening energizes me just like the writing I usually do during that time.\u00a0 Sorry I can&#8217;t\u00a0write and garden\u00a0a couple hours each in that same time-frame.\u00a0 I gotta sleep sometime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up a little after five this morning, kilted, booted, and out the front door.\u00a0 You\u00a0can guess\u00a0what I did.\u00a0 I succumbed to the urge\u00a0to enlarge the Lorelei just a little bit more. I added, oh, probably another 18-24 inches to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[413,412,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}