{"id":4360,"date":"2010-04-24T04:17:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2010-04-24T04:17:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T04:17:44","slug":"seeing-the-wood-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/seeing-the-wood-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the wood for the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Forest-of-Dean.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Forest-of-Dean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Forest-of-Dean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Forest-of-Dean.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Forest-of-Dean-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitforestofdean.co.uk\/\">Forest of Dean <\/a>certainly makes you wonder what the Garden of Eden looked like before Adam set about tending it. What elements would it have possessed? And once Adam got to work, I wonder what he would have done to keep the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garden_of_Eden#The_story_from_Genesis\">Garden of Eden <\/a>the way God wanted it to be?<\/p>\n<p>Did the\u00a0Garden of Eden have <a href=\"http:\/\/exoticanimallover.com\/tag\/animals-fear\/\">animals<\/a> within it? Perhaps Adam was vegetarian? Was Eve, as Adam&#8217;s helpmate, also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostongardens.com\/bostongardens\/articles\/mt_hood.htm\">keen gardener<\/a>? In 2004 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/britain\/exhibitions\/inagaddadavida\/gardenofeden.htm\">Tate gallery<\/a> explored some of the themes and artistic representations of Eden through the history of art to contemporary times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gluesociety.com\/#home\/the-glue-society\/the-work-content\/art-content\/gods-eye-view-content\">The Glue Society <\/a>using google earth produced their version of Eden in 2007. Of course, Adam and Eve need not live in a garden anymore &#8211; as they can stay in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gluesociety.com\/#home\/the-glue-society\/the-work-content\/art-content\/gods-eye-view-content\">luxury hotel <\/a>in Turkey&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forest of Dean certainly makes you wonder what the Garden of Eden looked like before Adam set about tending it. What elements would it have possessed? And once Adam got to work, I wonder what he would have done to keep the Garden of Eden the way God wanted it to be? Did the\u00a0Garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,11,16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}