{"id":929,"date":"2016-07-12T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:44:58","slug":"life-imitating-art-run-for-your-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitating Art!!! Run for your lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a route when I walk through my neighborhood (for exercise). It involves looping passed the local elementary school. The sidewalk runs along the one side of the school, where there is a little garden started by a spouse of a former teacher. Both the spouse and the teacher have moved on. And the garden was left to itself. Since they were native plants, they thrived and grew out of control. I passed this garden almost daily.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my surprise this week, when I walked by and saw this!The garden was in mid clean up and&#8230; Holy Mudder of Peanut Butter! \u00a0A BLUE gnome! What the&#8230;???!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"930\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?attachment_id=930\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?fit=1215%2C1283\" data-orig-size=\"1215,1283\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1468092511&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gnome-garden-UP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?fit=284%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?fit=970%2C1024\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-930 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?resize=780%2C823\" alt=\"gnome-garden-UP\" width=\"780\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?resize=970%2C1024 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?resize=284%2C300 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?resize=768%2C811 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randieandryan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gnome-garden-UP.jpg?w=1215 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you think that the gardener reads <em>Randie &amp; Ryan<\/em>? or <em>Squid Row<\/em>&#8230; or is this just coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a route when I walk through my neighborhood (for exercise). It involves looping passed the local elementary school. The sidewalk runs along the one side of the school, where there is a little garden started by a spouse[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?p=929\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111],"tags":[464,539,324,538,180],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-blue","tag-blue-gnomes","tag-garden-gnomes","tag-gardens","tag-gnomes","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-brig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62KKR-eZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}