{"id":3261,"date":"2016-07-07T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2016-07-07T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:04:30","slug":"green-green-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/green-green-greener\/","title":{"rendered":"Green, green, greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3266\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_600.jpg\" alt=\"160706_rice_field_sunset_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the rice fields.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3264 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_keri_450.jpg\" alt=\"160706_keri_450\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_keri_450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_keri_450-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>In my neighborhood, a grey-headed lapwing said to me,\u00a0as he looked out\u00a0upon the fields, &#8220;They&#8217;re getting greener every second, aren&#8217;t they?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3265 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_2_450.jpg\" alt=\"160706_rice_field_sunset_2_450\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_2_450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_rice_field_sunset_2_450-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sighing pleasantly, he added, &#8220;Greener, greener, greener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3263\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_rice_blue_sky_600.jpg\" alt=\"160706_green_rice_blue_sky_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_rice_blue_sky_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_rice_blue_sky_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was not much else to say. So I just nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Then, worrying that he might take my silence for rudeness, I said it, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greener, greener, greener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3262\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_green_rice_field_600.jpg\" alt=\"160706_green_green_rice_field_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_green_rice_field_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160706_green_green_rice_field_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the rice fields. In my neighborhood, a grey-headed lapwing said to me,\u00a0as he looked out\u00a0upon the fields, &#8220;They&#8217;re getting greener every second, aren&#8217;t they?&#8221; Sighing pleasantly, he added, &#8220;Greener, greener, greener.&#8221; There was not much else to say. So I just nodded in agreement. Then, worrying that he might take my silence for rudeness, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/green-green-greener\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green, green, greener<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}