{"id":862,"date":"2021-03-26T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:39:53","slug":"tree-ring-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Tree ring thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dendrochronology is a way to mark time when you run out of fingers. Everyone knows that a tree puts on a new ring each year so when you cut one down, or more politically correct these days, take a core, you come to understand the wealth of information embedded in the rings of a tree. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/magazine\/native-plants\/reading-the-rings\" target=\"_blank\">recent article<\/a> in Wildflower, the print and digital magazine of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Austin, Texas) is the perfect place to go to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dendrochronology is a way to mark time when you run out of fingers. Everyone knows that a tree puts on a new ring each year so when you cut one down, or more politically correct these days, take a core, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=862\">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":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}