{"id":2620,"date":"2017-04-17T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2017-04-17T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:22:18","slug":"rescuing-earthworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/rescuing-earthworms\/","title":{"rendered":"rescuing earthworms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morning after a rain storm in March, somewhere in San Diego:<\/p>\n

Colleen and I were out rescuing earthworms in the gutters of the street corners of her driveway. Part of it was for fun, but mostly because we didn’t want to waste any of that valuable earthworm poop. She put our new earthworm friends next to the new California poppies<\/a> in her front yard.<\/p>\n

Soft soil seems cozier than cold concrete anyway.<\/p>\n

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More than a month afterward I am in San Jos\u00e9, picking up my own earthworms after rainy days.<\/p>\n

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It hasn’t happened yet, but sometimes I worry I might squish the earthworm with my thumb and index finger.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

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No California poppies in our front yard in San Jos\u00e9, so the rose bushes will do as a new home. I hear the poppies down in San Diego are going through a super bloom now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The morning after a rain storm in March, somewhere in San Diego: Colleen and I were out rescuing earthworms in the gutters of the street corners of her driveway. Part of it was for fun, but mostly because we didn’t want to waste any of that valuable earthworm poop. She put our new earthworm friends … Continue reading “rescuing earthworms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Gg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}