{"id":1942,"date":"2010-04-09T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:34:21","slug":"all-you-need-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All You Need Is Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love old houses, cottages especially, that link the street to another time.\u00c2\u00a0 So much the better if they have not been rehabilitated.\u00c2\u00a0 There they stand, in all their glory, proudly showing their scars.\u00c2\u00a0 There is one such cottage at the end of our street, on the corner of 27th and East Cherry in Seattle&#8217;s Central District; and it is beyond glorious, not just on account of itself, but because of the tree it is connected to.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read more about this tree at http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008946386_peartree30m.html.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2002\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4165a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2002\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2002\" title=\"img_4165a\" src=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4165a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4165a-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4165a-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4165a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pear tree dwarfs the house it watches over, at 27th and East Cherry in Seattle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The huge tree is a common pear, <em>pyrus communis<\/em>, planted in 1889.\u00c2\u00a0 It dwarfs the house it watches over, and like other city trees it has witnessed more action and tragedy in one century than the sequoias have in five.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2003\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4167a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2003\" title=\"img_4167a\" src=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4167a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4167a-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4167a-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4167a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The branches from this one tree fill the entire garden, and drape the picket fence.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A little more than a year ago, a young Seattle man, Tyrone Love, was gunned down in the next block, and his murder remains unsolved.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read about this tragedy under the heading &#8220;Young Guns, Stolen Lives&#8221; at\u00c2\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sableverity.com\/2010Project\/1-year-the-murder-of-seattles-own-tyrone-love\/.<\/p>\n<p>A plaque has been installed, giving the year the tree was planted alongside its Latin name.\u00c2\u00a0 Across the top of the plaque are the words, &#8220;All You Need is Love,&#8221; timeless wisdom in recognition of how pear trees grow and in tribute to Tyrone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4171a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2004\" title=\"img_4171a\" src=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4171a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4171a-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4171a-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/img_4171a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaque tells how pear trees grow, and honors Tyrone Love, who died nearby.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love old houses, cottages especially, that link the street to another time.\u00c2\u00a0 So much the better if they have not been rehabilitated.\u00c2\u00a0 There they stand, in all their glory, proudly showing their scars.\u00c2\u00a0 There is one such cottage at the end of our street, on the corner of 27th and East Cherry in Seattle&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filosofia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}