{"id":1449,"date":"2010-05-12T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:38:30","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/05\/an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Apparently, Park and Planning is keeping pace with Google, PepsiCo, and Best Buy.\u00a0As this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/12\/dining\/12gardens.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=dining\">New York Times <\/a>article recounts, corporate vegetable gardens are the thing. Whether they are a way to break down corporate hierarchies, provide an employee benefit, or build green credibility, velvety sod is giving way to staked tomatoes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1451\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veg-signs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1451\" title=\"veg signs\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veg-signs-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veg-signs-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/veg-signs-1024x1011.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We can&#8217;t say thank you enough to American Plant Food for their generous gift certificate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our garden is also linked to another news story. Michelle Obama&#8217;s anti-obesity task force released its report yesterday and among its recommendations: access to healthy affordable food. If the sun cooperates, our vegetables will be right outside our front door, just a few steps past the vending machine.<\/p>\n<p>We planted yesterday and will post pictures soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Apparently, Park and Planning is keeping pace with Google, PepsiCo, and Best Buy.\u00a0As this New York Times article recounts, corporate vegetable gardens are the thing. Whether they are a way to break down corporate hierarchies, provide an employee benefit, or build green credibility, velvety sod is giving way to staked tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Our garden is also linked to another news story. Michelle Obama&#8217;s anti-obesity task force released its report yesterday and among its recommendations: access to healthy affordable food. If the sun cooperates, our vegetables will be right outside our front door, just a few steps past the vending machine.<\/p>\n<p>We planted yesterday and will post pictures soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[125,95],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-community-gardens","tag-green-site-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}