{"id":309,"date":"2013-09-20T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:37:26","slug":"the-will-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"The Will to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image-e1379691895410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-305\" title=\"Sprout1\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image-e1379691895410-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image-e1379691895410-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image-e1379691895410-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While doing the dishes today, I found a lentil which had sprouted in the dish drainer.\u00a0 Such will to live!\u00a0 Such ignoring of the odds and the illogical circumstances in which to take a shot at life!\u00a0 Who was I to deny assistance after this one lone lentil made such a valiant effort?<\/p>\n<p>I planted it &#8211; in a pot in which I had two days previously planted a handful of lavender seeds.\u00a0 Welcome to the neighborhood, lentil.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see what you&#8217;ve got!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3-e1379692518355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-308\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3-e1379692518355-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3-e1379692518355-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image3-e1379692518355-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=309\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-send=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing the dishes today, I found a lentil which had sprouted in the dish drainer.\u00a0 Such will to live!\u00a0 Such ignoring of the odds and the illogical circumstances in which to take a shot at life!\u00a0 Who was I to deny assistance after this one lone lentil made such a valiant effort? I planted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Will to Live&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}