{"id":13461,"date":"2018-07-25T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2018-07-25T19:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:43:31","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-now-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13461","title":{"rendered":"A portrait of the deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tomato-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not infrequently, living things from the garden are almost too beautiful to slice and eat. And yet, that&#8217;s why we grow them. Their existence is ephemeral. They&#8217;ll soon be lost and return to dust whether we eat them or not. The existential implications of that are horrifying. We share about 20 percent of our DNA with plants such as our cousins the tomatoes. <\/p>\n<p>I was about to slice this tomato for supper, but, because it was so beautiful, at least I took its portrait first. In an image, it lives on. The background is cashmere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not infrequently, living things from the garden are almost too beautiful to slice and eat. And yet, that&#8217;s why we grow them. Their existence is ephemeral. They&#8217;ll soon be lost and return to dust whether we eat them or not. The existential implications of that are horrifying. We share about 20 percent of our DNA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A portrait of the deceased&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13478,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions\/13478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}