{"id":954,"date":"2008-10-14T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T06:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2008-10-14T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T06:30:15","slug":"a243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"#a243 :: Seed pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-955\" title=\"ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101408-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101408-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101408-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101408.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Hollow, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-cost.net#cialis\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">more about<\/a>  papery pods fall by the thousands from the trees lining <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=fairfax+avenue+and+rosewood+avenue, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrasaleonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">pharm<\/a> +los+angeles,+ca&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=addr&#8221;>Fairfax Avenue<\/a> in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Barely weighing an ounce, they float down on the wind, carrying precious seeds to the cement-lined gutter, to be gathered roughly by street-sweeper brushes or washed down the storm drains and out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of horticulture have gone into this act of procreation &#8211; which is made poetically futile by a few decades of urban planning.<\/p>\n<p>If Darwin was right, have these trees reached their highest evolutionary state &#8211; a place where they exist only by a perfect symbiosis with an ecosphere of maudlin cityscapers and dutiful arborists?<\/p>\n<p>Or are they merely en route to their genetic destiny &#8211; an unpopulated future when iron roots will burst through sidewalks to make way for spiky cementophagic seedlings that gnaw and tunnel their way to soil and water and dominance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollow, more about papery pods fall by the thousands from the trees lining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetsam","category-life-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}