{"id":305,"date":"2004-06-11T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T08:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2004-06-11T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T08:34:56","slug":"british_gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"British Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June 5, 2004 Economist reviews &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv11nj9UJ&#038;isbn=0865477027&#038;itm=1\">A Little History of British Gardening<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>NAPOLEON called England a nation of shopkeepers: given the demise of the British high street, it would be more appropriate today to call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2724295\">a nation of gardeners<\/a>. The bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) this year has spawned a green-fingered fever across a country where gardening is already a national pastime; where more than 15% of the population has a conservatory; where television gardeners are national heart-throbs; and where almost everyone has an opinion on rhododendrons<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June 5, 2004 Economist reviews &#8220;A Little History of British Gardening&#8220;: NAPOLEON called England a nation of shopkeepers: given the demise of the British high street, it would be more appropriate today to call it a nation of gardeners. The bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) this year has spawned a green-fingered fever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}