{"id":2058,"date":"2007-04-01T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-148\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:22:54","slug":"this-rambling-affair-a-year-in-a-country-garden","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/this-rambling-affair-a-year-in-a-country-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"This Rambling Affair: A Year in a Country Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/ThisRamblingAffair.jpg\" alt=\"This Rambling Affair cover\" align=\"left\" \/>Des Kennedy shares from the heart in &#8220;This Rambling Affair: A Year in a Country Garden,&#8221; set on Denman Island in British Columbia. He knows his audience. &#8220;Gardeners are like people who endlessly take self-help courses and seminars to try make things better. We are chronic improvers, not necessarily of ourselves, but certainly of our landscapes&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Spring 2007 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Kennedy shares from the heart in &#8220;This Rambling Affair: A Year in a Country Garden,&#8221; set on Denman Island in British Columbia. He knows his audience. &#8220;Gardeners are like people who endlessly take self-help courses and seminars to try make things better. We are chronic improvers, not necessarily of ourselves, but certainly of our landscapes&#8230;&#8221; Excerpted from the Spring 2007 Arboretum Bulletin.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/this-rambling-affair-a-year-in-a-country-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Rambling Affair: A Year in a Country Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2058","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}