{"id":6290,"date":"2025-12-20T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/?page_id=6290"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:02:31","slug":"natures-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/natures-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The Great Garden Gossip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-21_06-51-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6291\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6586177595241467;width:204px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Percival and Mabel were two rabbits who believed they were <em>very<\/em> sophisticated creatures\u2014mainly because they stood upright and wore clothes, which, in their opinion, already put them several carrots above everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They met every morning in the flower garden, right between the daisies and the roses, to discuss important matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood morning, Mabel,\u201d said Percival, straightening his tiny waistcoat. \u201cYou\u2019ll never guess what I overheard near the compost heap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mabel adjusted her bonnet and sighed. \u201cIf this is about the snail again, Percival, I already know he\u2019s slow and dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, no,\u201d whispered Percival, leaning in. \u201cThe humans are planting <em>new vegetables<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mabel gasped so loudly a butterfly fell off a petunia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNew vegetables? Without consulting us?\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s outrageous. Absolutely against garden protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percival nodded gravely. \u201cI believe it\u2019s lettuce. Possibly carrots. I may have fainted briefly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They both stared thoughtfully at a bright patch of flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d said Mabel at last, \u201cif carrots are involved, we must act maturely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf course,\u201d Percival agreed. \u201cVery maturely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They immediately began planning how to eat the vegetables first while loudly blaming the birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they hopped off, Percival paused and said, \u201cSame time tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mabel smiled. \u201cNaturally. Gardens don\u2019t gossip themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with that, the two most overdressed rabbits in the garden disappeared into the flowers, convinced they were running the place\u2014one carrot at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc30\ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Garden Gossip Percival and Mabel were two rabbits who believed they were very sophisticated creatures\u2014mainly because they stood upright and wore clothes, which, in their opinion, already put them several carrots above everyone else. They met every morning in the flower garden, right between the daisies and the roses, to discuss important matters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennharris.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}