{"id":549,"date":"2009-07-10T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:49:54","slug":"dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father was trained as an agronomist, so I endured a fair number of lectures as a child about the importance of distinguishing between soil and dirt.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I recently added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dirt-Civilizations-David-R-Montgomery\/dp\/0520258061\/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&amp;coliid=I3FZC70UUQ84KR&amp;colid=SJ5N7TZT1RMB\">David Montgomery&#8217;s Dirt<\/a> (which is about soil) to my reading list, and Jim Rossignol&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rossignol.cream.org\/?p=899\">review of another book entitled Dirt<\/a> (this one &#8212; also about soil &#8212; being by William Bryant Logan, which is, as Rossignol notes, a name that belongs on the cover of books) has convinced me to add that one as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father was trained as an agronomist, so I endured a fair number of lectures as a child about the importance of distinguishing between soil and dirt.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I recently added David Montgomery&#8217;s Dirt (which is about soil) to my reading list, and Jim Rossignol&#8217;s review of another book entitled Dirt (this one &#8212; also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[154,856,153],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-dirt","tag-readings","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}