{"id":43692,"date":"2023-03-06T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T10:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43692"},"modified":"2023-03-06T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T10:26:44","slug":"no-life-without-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43692","title":{"rendered":"No Life Without Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-43693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/No_Life_Without_Soil-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"No Life Without Soil\" width=\"890\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/No_Life_Without_Soil-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/No_Life_Without_Soil-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/No_Life_Without_Soil.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had an interesting change of heart as I started compiling my book on &#8216;How To Grow Stuff&#8217;. Prior to that I was planning on ripping out the self planted flowers to make room for more vegetables. Then I saw a bee going from flower to flower and realised if I wanted this little fella to be there when I needed my veggies and fruit pollinated I better provide for him\/her the rest of the time too! So the flowers are now staying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an interesting change of heart as I started compiling my book on &#8216;How To Grow Stuff&#8217;. Prior to that I was planning on ripping out the self planted flowers to make room for more vegetables. Then I saw a bee going from flower to flower and realised if I wanted this little fella to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Life Without Soil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43694,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43692\/revisions\/43694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}