{"id":11684,"date":"2022-08-06T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:27:55","slug":"foraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/foraging\/","title":{"rendered":"foraging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Women&#8217;s association with such knowledge extends back to some of the earliest surviving depictions of the human form: the ubiquitous sculpted female figurines of the last Ice Age with their woven headgear, string skirts and belts made of cord. <\/p><cite>page 237, The Dawn of Everything<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I googled for an image of these figurines with headgear, string skirts, and belts. I didn&#8217;t find a clear one, so I moved on. The string skirt  makes me smile. I could manage to make a wearable belt and maybe the headgear, but a string skirt? I just liked this quote because it mentions clothes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on the homestead &#8211; wild blueberry picking. We harvest and freeze as much as we can so we don&#8217;t have to buy any. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spend time in these spots only during the summer. I forget how interesting they can be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5060.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5060.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5060-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Old piece of wood poking out of the blueberry bushes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5058-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Garden spider, guarding her web next to me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5059.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5059.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_5059-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Northern catalpa tree I planted last fall, doing well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s association with such knowledge extends back to some of the earliest surviving depictions of the human form: the ubiquitous sculpted female figurines of the last Ice Age with their woven headgear, string skirts&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}