{"id":892,"date":"2014-06-03T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=892"},"modified":"2014-06-03T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T01:17:50","slug":"backlands-to-some-heart-lands-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Backlands to some, heart lands to others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-dUY1e4NDYXI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAPUc\/rUTWLyL2FOE\/s120-c\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Panayoti\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Denver Botanic Gardens Outreach, was enthralled by our Backlands on a recent visit to Halifax, and pleads for their preservation. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/prairiebreak.blogspot.ca\/2014\/06\/backlands-to-some-heart-lands-to-others.html\">Panayoti&#8217;s blog<\/a> &#8220;Blueberries and crowberry make a groundcover that would be the envy of any designer!&#8230;More than anything, I kept thinking &#8220;Japanese Garden&#8221; as I looked around the area&#8211;the gnarly little jackpines and the rich texture of groundcover could easily be tweaked to create a heavenly Japanese garden if one wished to do so: why bother&#8211;I prefer what&#8217;s already here!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Denver Botanic Gardens Outreach, was enthralled by our Backlands on a recent visit to Halifax, and pleads for their preservation. Read Panayoti&#8217;s blog &#8220;Blueberries and crowberry make a groundcover that would be the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}