{"id":13571,"date":"2020-07-07T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=13571"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:21:32","slug":"but-the-trees-never-came-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/stories\/but-the-trees-never-came-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"But the trees never came back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are woods in back of my house that are very dear to me\u2014I walk on the trails most of the year, and cross-country ski on them during the winter. Those woods and trails are one of the\u00a0reasons I have never wanted to move away from here\u2014we\u2019ve lived her for 37 years, and consider them to be \u201cour woods\u201d, even though they\u2019re not! About 20 years ago a gas company was given permission to clear a piece of land at the bottom of the hill and install a gas storage well. It was only in use for a couple of years, but the well and burner and other paraphernalia were left there. That part of the forest, which is pretty much at the hub of a number of woods trails, is now more of a meadow, as the trees never came back. So I thought it would be appropriate to attach my gift of beauty to the fencing surrounding the well. I made another bird and laid it on the ground near the well and tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are woods in back of my house that are very dear to me\u2014I walk on the trails most of the year, and cross-country ski on them during the winter. Those woods and trails are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"place":[141,142,140],"event-year":[344],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17294,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571\/revisions\/17294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=13571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}