{"id":52,"date":"2014-01-06T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T02:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-01-06T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T02:18:28","slug":"wassailing-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wassailing-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Wassailing the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No pics for this, it was too cold and too dark.\u00a0 I poured 36 oz of pear cider into a brass temple bowl, blessed it, and took it out with a dipper to libate and thank the trees and shrubs at HedgeCroft.\u00a0 It is -14F (-26C) out, and they are sleeping, but I trust they can and will respond in the Spring.\u00a0 Wassail is old English for &#8216;be you healthy&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wassail\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wassail <\/a>and I am finishing off two bottles of cider myself as i write this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No pics for this, it was too cold and too dark.\u00a0 I poured 36 oz of pear cider into a brass temple bowl, blessed it, and took it out with a dipper to libate and thank the trees and shrubs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wassailing-the-trees\/\">Continue reading <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-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hedgecroft.com\/permaculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}