{"id":2810,"date":"2016-02-12T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T12:43:22","slug":"just-plum-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/just-plum-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Just plum beautiful!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On October 22nd, 1837, Henry David Thoreau decided to begin a journal. Years later, he’d written right around a zillion pages. Only a slight exaggeration.<\/p>\n

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The third little thing he\u00a0jotted down\u00a0that first day was this: “The Germans say — Es is alles wahr wodurch du besser wirst.<\/em>” The quotation is from Goethe. “Everything is true by which you become better.”<\/p>\n

I thought that was just plum beautiful.<\/p>\n

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And it was a great thing to have in mind the night before a day of plum-viewing.<\/p>\n

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The plum-viewing was just behind a friend’s house, which backs up to the Setonoya River\u00a0 and the plum trees that grow down by its banks.\u00a0\"160211_plum_picnic8_450\"<\/p>\n

It was warmer than in past years. We all seemed content, under the blossoms,\u00a0to let the day flow on by.<\/p>\n

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Under the trees . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . the words would sometimes pop into my head:<\/p>\n

Everything is true by which you become better.<\/em>\"160211_plum_picnic13_450\"<\/p>\n

Of course they did.<\/p>\n

One cherry tree was down there, too. He couldn’t wait another month to bloom. Wanted to be out and about with the plums. Who could blame him?<\/p>\n

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  On October 22nd, 1837, Henry David Thoreau decided to begin a journal. Years later, he’d written right around a zillion pages. Only a slight exaggeration. The third little thing he\u00a0jotted down\u00a0that first day was this: “The Germans say — Es is alles wahr wodurch du besser wirst.” The quotation is from Goethe. “Everything is … Continue reading Just plum beautiful!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}