{"id":8633,"date":"2022-03-18T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:36:00","slug":"a-nature-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8633","title":{"rendered":"A Nature Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid December I checked out the green waste bin looking for potential art materials. Saw a sweet little oak cutting. I snagged it. <\/p>\n<p>Looked like a wee stump with a few twigs. Thought that it might be fun to use in a piece. Popped it in some water hoping it would prevent it from drying out before I had an opportunity to look at it closer. It has been growing new leaves, no roots. Pretty sure this is not a tree that can be propagated in water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OakCutting2_IMG_3205.JPG\" alt=\"Oak Cutting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week I moved it upstairs. I thought it would get better light during the day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OakCutting_Shelves.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Cutting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I totally forgot to water the little oak one day. It requires loads of water.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, it\u2019s started to lose leaves and some of the twig-like branches died. <\/p>\n<p>I pruned the dried dead bits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OakCutting1_IMG_3203.JPG\" alt=\"Oak Cutting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the green section may survive. How, not sure. <\/p>\n<p>This leaf gave me pause.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OakCutting3_IMG_3201.JPG\" alt=\"Oak Cutting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nature offers amazingly beautiful gifts!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid December I checked out the green waste bin looking for potential art materials. Saw a sweet little oak cutting. I snagged it. Looked like a wee stump with a few twigs. Thought that it might be fun to use in a piece. Popped it in some water hoping it would prevent it from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Nature Gift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-nature","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8640,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}