{"id":1731,"date":"2009-12-25T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T23:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/1731"},"modified":"2009-12-25T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T23:27:53","slug":"telling-time-with-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/12\/25\/telling-time-with-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling time with corn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law remembers as a child her mother setting aside a few kernels of corn in early November and placing them in water so that they would germinate by Christmas and could thus be used as decorations for a nativity scene.<\/p>\n<p>We are surprised by how quickly time passes. &#8220;Is it really Christmas again, already?&#8221; But if we relied on more natural processes, our sense of time would change. Perhaps, it would even slow down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law remembers as a child her mother setting aside a few kernels of corn in early November and placing them in water so that they would germinate by Christmas and could thus be used as decorations for a nativity scene. We are surprised by how quickly time passes. &#8220;Is it really Christmas again, already?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}