{"id":43,"date":"2010-01-02T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-01-02T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:58:41","slug":"garlic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Garlic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I planted garlic this afternoon. I&#8217;m running a little late. My friend who lives at Comptche, inland from here, and grows beautiful garlic, likes to plant at Winter Solstice and harvest at Summer Solstice. But I figure January 2 is close enough. Anyway, the solstice was rainy, and today was sunny and mild, an excellent day for being outdoors. After spading in compost from a well-matured pile, I selected a good-sized head from last year&#8217;s crop, broke it apart, and dropped each fine fat clove into its hole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rest of last year&#8217;s crop hangs in a decorative sheaf by my kitchen window, where it&#8217;s convenient to clip off a head when I need to replenish my <a title=\"Wild River Pottery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainlocal.com\/Herb%20Roth%27s%20banner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wild River Pottery<\/a> garlic jar.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t yet figured out how to make garlic braids like my friend in Comptche. Maybe this year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planted garlic this afternoon. I&#8217;m running a little late. My friend who lives at Comptche, inland from here, and grows beautiful garlic, likes to plant at Winter Solstice and harvest at Summer Solstice. But I figure January 2 is close enough. Anyway, the solstice was rainy, and today was sunny and mild, an excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,19],"tags":[408,35,36,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}