{"id":206,"date":"2026-06-16T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:12:23","slug":"inch-by-inch-row-by-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/inch-by-inch-row-by-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Inch by Inch, Row by Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Garden Song\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZYY80Y3jNc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having trouble working on my writing lately. When that happens, I often turn to other ways of being creative. I have been making some desultory progress on some knitting and crocheting projects. And last week I bought some plants at a local Ace Hardware and put them in a raised bed in our back yard. Four tomato plants, two red bell peppers, and a zucchini plant. And then I found nine oldish red potatoes that were growing eyes in the bottom of a cupboard and planted a potato patch as well. Hopefully these alternative creative activities will get my writing mojo flowing again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having trouble working on my writing lately. When that happens, I often turn to other ways of being creative. I have been making some desultory progress on some knitting and crocheting projects. And last week I bought some plants at a local Ace Hardware and put them in a raised bed in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyacarterauthor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}