{"id":7725,"date":"2022-04-06T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2022-04-06T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:54:54","slug":"a-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/a-dandelion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7725\" data-postid=\"7725\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7725 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Dad and I were sitting in chairs on the deck enjoying a spring day. I had just planted my herb garden and poured us a glass of a coconut roasted chocolate porter brewed in Ashland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sipped the beer and agreed it was terrible. I think it might have been the worst beer I&#8217;ve ever tasted. It came into my possession as a gift from a friend who didn&#8217;t like beer but had been given the porter as a present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad looked down to the yard. A single dandelion had somehow survived a thorough mowing earlier that morning by our crack father and son lawn maintenance team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asked me if he could quote a poem. I said of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He composed his mind for a second and then recited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Simple and fresh and fair from winter&#8217;s close emerging,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Forth from its sunny nook of shelter&#8217;d grass\u2014innocent, golden,<br>calm as the dawn,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The spring&#8217;s first dandelion shows its trustful face.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who wrote that? I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWalt Whitman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed the poem for a few minutes and then I dumped the glasses of porter onto the lawn, careful to avoid the dandelion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad and I were sitting in chairs on the deck enjoying a spring day. I had just planted my herb garden and poured us a glass of a coconut roasted chocolate porter brewed in Ashland. We sipped the beer and agreed it was terrible. I think it might have been the worst beer I&#8217;ve ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}