{"id":7688,"date":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:22:38","slug":"a-moment-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/?p=7688","title":{"rendered":"A Moment in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1089\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=640%2C1089&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Three dark-winged butterflies feeding on clusters of delicate white flowers in a green garden\" class=\"wp-image-7691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=300%2C511&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=1024%2C1743&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=768%2C1307&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=902%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 902w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?resize=1203%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was sitting in my garden, listening to a podcast about Anne Carson, the newly announced Nobel Prize winner in Literature. I\u2019d never heard of her before and was curious to know more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the wind was blowing gently, and a small gathering of blue tiger butterflies (\u9752\u6591\u8776) was busy feeding on the tiny white flowers of Eupatorium (\u6fa4\u862d), a favourite nectar source for these butterflies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne Carson, butterflies, flowers and the wind. A lovely moment in the garden.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind. Garden. Butterflies. Anne Carson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dulanretreat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Butterflies-in-the-garden-%E2%80%94-11-October-2026.jpg?fit=1320%2C2247&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}