{"id":2355,"date":"2008-04-01T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2008-04-01T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:02:31","slug":"minnesota-blogs-you-should-be-reading-growing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Blogs You Should Be Reading: Growing Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring will eventually spring.\u00a0 (My biggest regret was that I used the line &#8220;March in Minnesota; in like a lion, out like a cold, wet lion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2298\">one week and a snowstorm too early<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And when it does, Black Thumbs like I will need the help of someone who knows how to do something with plants other than mulch the remains.<\/p>\n<p>And so &#8211; since my college friend <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/maasx003\/garden\/\">Jackie <\/a>hasn&#8217;t posted in a year &#8211; the spot of &#8220;official gardenblog of Shot in the Dark goes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/growingthings.blogspot.com\/\">Growing Things<\/a>&#8220;, run by my neighbor (the guy who lives the <em>other <\/em>way from Flash, who along with his wife actually runs a pretty mean garden over the summer himself; he gets plenty of practice sprouting conspiracy theories over the winter.\u00a0 But I digress), Peter.<\/p>\n<p>This year, my resolution is to make my customary salsa garden actually <em>work<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course, along about mid-August I&#8217;ll have to find a good canning blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring will eventually spring.\u00a0 (My biggest regret was that I used the line &#8220;March in Minnesota; in like a lion, out like a cold, wet lion one week and a snowstorm too early). And when it does, Black Thumbs like I will need the help of someone who knows how to do something with plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}