{"id":236,"date":"2016-08-29T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:11:41","slug":"old-man-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late August again, and Summer just beginning to yield to Autumn&#8217;s quiet decay.<br \/>\nAlmost a year ago, deep in the woods in an island valley, as we stood, joyful witnesses to Kelsey and Ryan&#8217;s wedding vows, a west coast gale raged in the treetops. A potent storm, it shut down the power, and docked the ferries, and closed the Malahat.<br \/>\nBack at home, our dear Old Man Willow, silent veteran of more than eighty summers beside the creek; haven of owls and nutstore of squirrels and confidant of children; bowed to the storm and laid himself down across the field.<br \/>\nToday I am a happy witness again, this time to the circle of decay, and renewal, and transformation. Out of the old man&#8217;s torn stump, new life riots, and a spunky little fellow proudly stands in his daddy&#8217;s footprint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_4184.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4184\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late August again, and Summer just beginning to yield to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}