{"id":5180,"date":"2011-11-25T01:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2011-11-25T01:20:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:20:49","slug":"almost-like-a-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"The fallen leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11112204.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Leaves\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday, in the Abbey Gardens, I saw the men with leaf blowers, and the machine with the leaf blowing attachment, blowing all the leaves into a trail that could be gathered up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11112202.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Leaves\" \/><br \/>\nIt seems almost like a harvest but there is really no end result &#8211;\u00a0 leaves are composted and cannot really be called a harvest. They need clearing away.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11112203.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Leaves\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I was young we raked up leaves to burn on the November 5th Bonfire and that marked for me an important turning point of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Men and Maypole dancers welcome in the spring but are absent at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead we remember Guy Fawkes with fireworks and have Remembrance Day parades. Such ceremonies fit in better with the fallen leaves. The fallen leaves do bring with them a sense of loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in the Abbey Gardens, I saw the men with leaf blowers, and the machine with the leaf blowing attachment, blowing all the leaves into a trail that could be gathered up. It seems almost like a harvest but there is really no end result &#8211;\u00a0 leaves are composted and cannot really be called a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}