{"id":215,"date":"2019-09-09T22:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/?p=215"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:09:33","slug":"this-is-on-my-bucket-list-just-hope-it-happens-before-a-kick-the-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/this-is-on-my-bucket-list-just-hope-it-happens-before-a-kick-the-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"This is on my bucket list. Just hope it happens before a kick the bucket!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Clearly, there are plenty of benefits of tending to and growing your own produce and flowers. It provides exercise and better nutrition; There&#8217;s also positive financial benefits, as well as improved mental health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A study conducted in 2010 in Austrialia noted that &#8220;gardening may lower the risk of dementia by as much as 36%&#8221; and that &#8220;horticultural therapy is a growing area proving helpful for seniors with dementia.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/article\/retirement\/T013-C000-S004-the-surprising-benefits-of-gardening-in-retirement.html\">Emma Patch, Kiplinger, September 6, 2019<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, there are plenty of benefits of tending to and growing your own produce and flowers. It provides exercise and better nutrition; There&#8217;s also positive financial benefits, as well as improved mental health. A study conducted in 2010 in Austrialia noted that &#8220;gardening may lower the risk of dementia by as much as 36%&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}