{"id":2013,"date":"2026-06-23T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:16","slug":"lifes-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Jill Berensten-Bottum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Baby plants in black plastic boxes -<br>I carefully choose <br>new homes in the warm, rich soil<br>and dig holes just right for each.<br>Lovingly, I place each, <br>pat the soil around it. <br>Just as I finish,<br>soft rains come again<br>supporting the pristine life<br>I have just added<br>to my garden.<br><br>Varied activities with fun and budding friendships -<br>I carefully choose<br>times and days in my rich, new life<br>and dig in to fill my life <br>lovingly with richness of <br>dancing, helping, sports, and more.<br>Just as life\u2019s storms are settling,<br>rainbows have arrived <br>issuing in opportunities<br>to the garden of my life.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rainbows have arrived \/issuing in opportunities \/to the garden of my life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}