{"id":3543,"date":"2010-04-29T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:32:19","slug":"my-midas-mushroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/yardlust\/my-midas-mushroom\/","title":{"rendered":"My Midas mushroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4563908266\/\" title=\"gold mushroom by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3118\/4563908266_b27397230e_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"gold mushroom\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megmorris.com\/blog\/\">Megan<\/a> who, several weeks ago, said that my photos of the yard remind her of some magical wonderland (I&#8217;m paraphrasing, unless that&#8217;s her direct quote). Which is so funny to me because I totally shoot macros of blooms for that specific effect (and to pretend like the areas of the yard that are flower-free don&#8217;t exist). But then today I was out transferring some snapdragons to the front bed and I saw something glinting in the sunlight. I figured it was debris from the road &#8212; all kinds of weird shit pops up in that bed thanks to its pavement proximity &#8212; so I sort of poked at it. It gave way and I realized it was soft and not plastic or metal. And then I realized, holy hell, there is a gold mushroom in my yard. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some Googling to see if I can find a picture of another mushroom like it, but I&#8217;m not coming up with anything. The fine folks on Twitter seem to agree that if I eat it, I will grow tall and potentially spit fireballs. So, sigh, I will not be eating it (I don&#8217;t care for mushrooms anyway), but I am going to let it sit and continue to grow, or whatever mushrooms do, because I&#8217;m convinced it has to be at least <i>partly<\/i> magical. I mean, it is the color of gold spraypaint. Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was Megan who, several weeks ago, said that my photos of the yard remind her of some magical wonderland (I&#8217;m paraphrasing, unless that&#8217;s her direct quote). Which is so funny to me because I totally shoot macros of blooms for that specific effect (and to pretend like the areas of the yard that are flower-free don&#8217;t exist). But then today I was out transferring some snapdragons to the front bed and I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1365],"tags":[1405,1404,1403,2188,619,2270],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yardlust","tag-gold-mushroom","tag-growth","tag-mushroom","tag-spring","tag-weird","tag-yardlust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-V9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}