{"id":10664,"date":"2020-01-22T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2020-01-22T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:15:36","slug":"quercus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/quercus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"quercus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CJL1002-WHITE-OAK-1602-MKT-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"at night\" class=\"wp-image-10665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CJL1002-WHITE-OAK-1602-MKT-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CJL1002-WHITE-OAK-1602-MKT-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CJL1002-WHITE-OAK-1602-MKT.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI willingly confess so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. He cannot be wholly bad who has a sympathy with what is so innocent and so beautiful. But quite apart from any sentimental consideration, the influence of trees upon climate and rainfall gives to the planting of trees, and to the protection of them where nature has already planted them, a national importance. Our wicked wastefulness and contempt for the teaching of science in this  matter will most surely be avenged on our descendants. Nature may not  instantly rebuke, but she never forgives the breach of her laws.\u201d March 25, 1888, James Russell Lowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI willingly confess so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. He cannot be wholly bad who has a sympathy with what is so innocent and so beautiful. But quite apart from any sentimental consideration, the influence of trees upon climate and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/quercus-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;quercus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"apart from any sentimental consideration, the influence of trees upon climate and rainfall gives to the planting of trees, and to the protection of them where nature has already planted them, a national importance. J.R. Lowell @HopeJahren","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}