{"id":117,"date":"2009-06-01T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/01\/seed-bombs\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:04:00","slug":"seed-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/seed-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed Bombs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Magical Mama <a href=\"http:\/\/kitmama.blogspot.com\">Kit<\/a> shared this fun idea.&nbsp; She writes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,0);\"><em><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Another blog I read had a great post today about <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebirdsinthemeadow.com\/2009\/06\/seed-bombs\/\"><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,0);\">seed bombs<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,0);\"><em><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>. . . and I immediately thought it would be a great way to make today magical!&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve never heard of them before today- I love the idea!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebirdsinthemeadow.com\/2009\/06\/seed-bombs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebirdsinthemeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/seed-table.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">The idea is new to me, too, but it really sounds like a delightful way to spread some beauty in unloved places. &nbsp; You basically make little clay balls filled with a bit of soil and some flower seeds, and throw them hard enough to crack them into deserted lots, ditches and other neglected spaces that could use some flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The web site has all the directions, plus information on sites that are good candidates and sites NOT to use seed bombs, along with information about recommended seeds.&nbsp; They recommend native wildflowers and particularly poppies.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing reminds me of a sort of ramped up take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaberry.com\/prod.cfm\/pgc\/11100\/sbc\/11104\/inv\/457\">Miss Rumphius<\/a>, one of my favorite children&#8217;s books in the world.&nbsp; Miss Rumphius tells us how her grandfather taught her that we each must make the world more beautiful in our own way.&nbsp; Miss Rumphius ultimately does that by scattering lupine seeds all over the countryside near her home.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that getting to hurl things in order to spread beauty will appeal even more to some kiddos.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much, Kit!&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical Mama Kit shared this fun idea.&nbsp; She writes&#8230; Another blog I read had a great post today about seed bombs. . . and I immediately thought it would be a great way to make today magical!&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never heard of them before today- I love the idea! &nbsp; The idea is new to me,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[103,110,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}