{"id":4080,"date":"2011-05-18T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:28:06","slug":"it-is-by-will-alone-i-set-the-hoe-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/it-is-by-will-alone-i-set-the-hoe-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"It is by will alone I set the hoe in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting the hang of this whole &#8220;gardening&#8221; thing. It mostly consists of moving a whole lot of earth a very short distance \u2014\u00a0usually just inverting the vertical position of a &#8220;shovelful&#8221; \u2014\u00a0and exterminating everything which grows there, supplanting the thriving and natural state of things with a chastised vassal fief, creating orderly rows of ambitious homogeny and thrift. A colonialism of dirt, one might say. I&#8217;m currently looking for a pith helmet and should anyone volunteer as my &#8220;man servant&#8221; or &#8220;boy,&#8221; I promise to be a lenient master and offer perks, such as an abundance of radishes.<\/p>\n<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23831438?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>[\/x_video_embed]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mateusz-med-grep.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mateusz med grep\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4081\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting the hang of this whole &#8220;gardening&#8221; thing. It mostly consists of moving a whole lot of earth a very short distance \u2014\u00a0usually just inverting the vertical position of a &#8220;shovelful&#8221; \u2014\u00a0and exterminating everything which grows there, supplanting the thriving and natural state of things with a chastised vassal fief, creating orderly rows of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/it-is-by-will-alone-i-set-the-hoe-in-motion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It is by will alone I set the hoe in motion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1400,912,1401,914,917,368],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-video","tag-colonialism","tag-gardening","tag-growing-stuff","tag-plants","tag-sjobergens-sodra-odlarforening","tag-time-lapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}