{"id":1751,"date":"2009-04-28T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:05:00","slug":"gratitude-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/gratitude-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1750\" title=\"The Inner Cauldron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/celticactofgratitude.jpg\" alt=\"The Inner Cauldron\" width=\"425\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/celticactofgratitude.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/celticactofgratitude-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/celticactofgratitude-260x315.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/celticactofgratitude-140x170.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Act of Gratitude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A very old man went out one day on the land beside his house, and began planting fruit trees.<\/p>\n<p>A young man walked by. &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; the young man asked. &#8220;Planting fruit trees,&#8221; the old man replied. &#8220;But you will not see fruit in your lifetime,&#8221; the youth said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fruit that I have enjoyed in my lifetime,&#8221; the old man answered, &#8220;has been from trees that people before me have planted. So to express my gratitude of them, I am planting trees to give fruit to those who come after me.&#8221; &#8211; Medieval Irish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Act of Gratitude &#8220;A very old man went out one day on the land beside his house, and began planting fruit trees. A young man walked by. &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; the young man asked. &#8220;Planting fruit trees,&#8221; the old man replied. &#8220;But you will not see fruit in your lifetime,&#8221; the youth said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[624,19],"tags":[479,482,480,481,370,393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}