{"id":471,"date":"2011-04-23T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:40:58","slug":"a-day-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Weeding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-487\" title=\"Weeding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Weeding-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Weeding-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Weeding-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Weeding.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I sat in my LaZBoy, feeling the pain of a full day spent working the yard, I wondered why I felt so good. My muscles and joints do not feel good &#8212; they are complaining about getting back to work after a winter off.<\/p>\n<p>But my soul feels a sweet sense of satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered: God&#8217;s first command to people was to manage the earth he entrusted to us. Today I was part of that &#8220;Prime Directive&#8221; in a very real way; and it feels good (except the lower back!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat in my LaZBoy, feeling the pain of a full day spent working the yard, I wondered why I felt so good. My muscles and joints do not feel good &#8212; they are complaining about getting back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-and-theology","category-marks-blog","category-my-personal-journey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}