{"id":4614,"date":"2011-01-01T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2017-07-17T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:41:47","slug":"fallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/fallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nfallow 1 |\u02c8fal\u014d|<br \/>\nadjective<br \/>\n(of farmland) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production; incentives for farmers to let the land lie fallow in order to reduce grain surpluses.<br \/>\n\u2022 figurative inactive : long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen.<br \/>\n\u2022 (of a sow) not pregnant.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m delighted with the definition of fallow. I&#8217;ve intended to let my garden and garden writing go fallow for some time. I have not abandoned them, nor are they left entirely untended. During this period of resting, I&#8217;m also making preparations for renewal. I&#8217;m emotionally plowing and harrowing.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nMy taking a year off from gardening did not begin today with the chronological year but last fall, with the beginning of Austin&#8217;s gardening year. For many reasons, I feel the need to let go of the garden and stand back and observe it. When I first began this garden in 1995, I had already spent 1994 observing it through all its seasons. Over the years I&#8217;ve spent so much time with my nose in the dirt, focusing on this task or the other, that I have let lapse my old habits of careful observation. For me, observation precedes inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}