{"id":599,"date":"2007-08-02T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2007-08-02T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:56:15","slug":"whatever-happened-to-arbor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to Arbor Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/templates\/page.aspx?id=38659>June 5<\/a> is when NZ marks Arbor Day.<br \/>\nI remember very clearly that as a child this was an important day in the calendar.  Arbor Day!  The day on which some people plant trees!<br \/>\nMy question, then: has Arbor Day faded in prominence, or is it just that Arbor Day is a schoolkid thing?<br \/>\n(And if it has faded in prominence, isn&#8217;t it about time it was unfaded?)<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nI am marking assignments.  Michelle today accused me of being a teacher.  My protests sounded hollow even to me. And for the record, I am kinda ashamed about not seeing any film fest movies.  It has not been a good movie-going month for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 5 is when NZ marks Arbor Day. I remember very clearly that as a child this was an important day in the calendar. Arbor Day! The day on which some people plant trees! My question, then: has Arbor Day faded in prominence, or is it just that Arbor Day is a schoolkid thing? (And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whatever happened to Arbor Day?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-9F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}