{"id":12409,"date":"2012-02-12T04:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:00:43","slug":"gardening-in-the-cyber-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/gardening-in-the-cyber-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening in the Cyber Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5811861651\/\" title=\"Gerberas a smile by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3164\/5811861651_fab61942a5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Gerberas a smile\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you learn to garden when digital meant green fingered? When a web was created by spiders to trap unsuspecting  green fly and birds flew inter&#8217;net that protected fruit crops?<br \/>\nIf you answered yes to any of these questions then welcome to <strong>&#8216;the cyber age club&#8217;<\/strong>. You are old enough to qualify for one of the Cybermen to help you in your garden, just let us know and we will get Doctor Who to arrange a visit.<\/p>\n<h2>Cyber Gardening Knowledge<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Apples are not fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Palm pilots do not grow in tropical climates with large frondy leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Tweets are not what you hear from around your bird feeders.<\/li>\n<li>i-pads are not for the protection of blind gardeners.<\/li>\n<li>Spam is not found in a gardeners sandwich lunch.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft is not a brand of horticultural fleece.<\/li>\n<li>Digg has nothing to do with gardening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Good News for Cyber Age Gardening<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The more things change the more the therapeutic effects of gardening are recognised.<\/li>\n<li>You have access to more pictures and information on plants and gardens via a computer, donggled phone or wifi device.<\/li>\n<li>Best of all there are 1700+ pages on <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/\">Gardeners Tips<\/a> that you can peruse when it is too dark and wet to garden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>\nThe picture is not a fascinated <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9610\">Gerbera<\/a> as you might think. It is a digital &#8216;Avatar&#8217; a graphical representation of the editor or the editor&#8217;s alter ego or character used with the  Hortoris web pseudonym. (are you still with me or have you gone into the garden?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you learn to garden when digital meant green fingered? When a web was created by spiders to trap unsuspecting green fly and birds flew inter&#8217;net that protected fruit crops? If you answered yes to any of these questions then welcome to &#8216;the cyber age club&#8217;. You are old enough to qualify for one of the Cybermen to help you in your garden, just let us know and we will get Doctor Who to arrange a visit. Cyber Gardening Knowledge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/gardening-in-the-cyber-age\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}