{"id":229,"date":"2006-12-03T16:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T20:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/12\/03\/a-new-leaf-1\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T20:59:26","slug":"a-new-leaf-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/a-new-leaf-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Leaf (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s turn over a new leaf,
And become what we’ve always felt
We ought to be:
Committed gardeners.<\/p>\n

Not that it’s a great sacrifice
To put magic seeds
In the fertile soil
And let them transform before our eyes
Into upward-striving tender plants.<\/p>\n

Nor is it so burdensome
To lend a hand
By airing occasionally their snug beds,
Quenching their thirst on hot days,
And trimming their excess curly locks.<\/p>\n

In short, as those primal mystics understood,
Gardening is an act of love.
It is also the best, perhaps only, means
Of restoring to our discordant hearts
The sacred rhythm of Eternal Life.<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem
25 March 1992<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s turn over a new leaf,And become what we’ve always feltWe ought to be:Committed gardeners. Not that it’s a great sacrificeTo put magic seeds In the fertile soilAnd let them transform before our eyesInto upward-striving tender plants. Nor is it so burdensomeTo lend a handBy airing occasionally their snug beds,Quenching their thirst on hot days,And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}