{"id":10951,"date":"2017-10-03T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2017-10-03T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:41:28","slug":"english-lawns-in-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/english-lawns-in-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"English lawns in 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10952\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lawn_adirondak_chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lawn_adirondak_chair.jpg\" alt=\"Lawn and Adirondak Chair (Guardian, 1964)\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lawn_adirondak_chair.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lawn_adirondak_chair-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lawn_adirondak_chair-624x374.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawn and Adirondack Chair (Guardian, 1964)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/oct\/03\/lawn-cult-garden-1964\">Guardian has just reprinted a 1964 article on lawns<\/a> by Moira Savonius, who also wrote books on fungi and on flowers. She sees lawns as a &#8216;cult&#8217;. My impression is that grass cutting has declined in public parks and stately homes but that the area they occupy in private gardens is but slightly diminished &#8211; and maybe not at all if you allow for fact that motor mowers were , relatively, much \u00a0more expensive in 1964 and so many more people &#8216;neglected&#8217; their grass in the suburbs. A curious feature of the black and white photo accompanying the article is the Adirondack Chair &#8211; I believe they were most uncommon in 1960s Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has just reprinted a 1964 article on lawns by Moira Savonius, who also wrote books on fungi and on flowers. She sees lawns as a &#8216;cult&#8217;. My impression is that grass cutting has declined in public parks and stately homes but that the area they occupy in private gardens is but slightly diminished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10953,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}