{"id":334,"date":"2010-06-09T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:38:57","slug":"beauty-and-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2010\/06\/beauty-and-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Circle-Bed-Begonia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-335\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 7px 9px;\" title=\"Freshly planted begonia\" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Circle-Bed-Begonia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An old friend once commented that &#8220;it is not my job to create beauty.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 When I heard it, I could not quite process it and\u00a0 the comment stuck in my mind.\u00a0 While I was working in the gardens tonight it finally occurred to me:  I like creating beauty.  In fact, I will even say that I <em>love <\/em>creating beauty.\u00a0 This evening I cleared out a weed-overgrown area of my flower beds and I planted begonias &#8211; the kind with soft pink flowers and pale green leaves.\u00a0 I planted them in a half-circle.\u00a0 In my mind, I was painting colors on the canvas of soil.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a feminine thing, the deep, inspired love for creating beauty.\u00a0 I only know that I find such joy in arranging, observing, clearing, adding, and so forth &#8230;. until something beautiful appears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a feminine thing &#8211; the deep, inspired love for creating beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,52,73],"tags":[421,110,109,111],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}