{"id":2311,"date":"2015-07-22T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T10:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2015-07-20T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:11:49","slug":"the-way-life-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2015\/07\/22\/the-way-life-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The way life should be"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"more<\/a>For me, there is no doubt about it; Maine is indeed the way life should be.\u00a0 After returning from a glorious laid back vacation in Maine, I think I figured out how they do it ~ Valerian (Valeriana officinalis<\/em><\/a>)! The roadsides and fields are covered with it, very similar to the abundant growth of Queen Anne\u2019s Lace along the roadside of New York.\u00a0 I can honestly say I have never seen so much wild Valerian <\/a>in my life. It was everywhere. It blooms from June through September (just in time for tourist season) and fills the air with a sweet intoxicating aroma (unlike the stinky sock smell of its roots) that will relax the beast in any strung out soul. This wonderful herb helps soothe tension while bringing a sense of calm and liberation from anxiety along with summoning a healing restful night. Yes indeed, that is the way life should be ~ relaxed and mellow.\"roadside<\/a><\/p>\n

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For me, there is no doubt about it; Maine is indeed the way life should be.\u00a0 After returning from a glorious laid back vacation in Maine, I think I figured out how they do it ~ Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)! The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,788],"tags":[1061,1062,817,818],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herbs","category-travel-2","tag-maine","tag-the-way-life-should-be","tag-valerian","tag-valeriana-officinalis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}