{"id":273,"date":"2014-12-01T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-12-01T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:58:07","slug":"8-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"8 years later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I gave my talk &#8220;Around the world in 80 plants&#8221; was 8 (eight) years ago on 6th November 2006 for the local group of the Norwegian Botanical Society (NBF-TLA) under the Norwegian title &#8220;Verden rundt med 80 arter &#8211; som smaker&#8221;. \u00a0After the meeting, the leader of the group, Arne Odland told me I should write a book. The thought had occurred to me, but this was the spark I needed&#8230;.but that it would take 8 years is surprising, but there was still a lot of testing of plants, trying of many recipes, a full time job, a\u00a0large garden to look after and some rewriting&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nI was invited back to the Botanical Society to give a quick 10 minute introduction to the book. Then this afternoon I had a panicky call whether I could make a longer talk as the main lecturer had to cancel&#8230;..<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NBF_RTW_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NBF_RTW_2014-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"NBF_RTW_2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NBF_RTW_2014-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NBF_RTW_2014.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI used the same picture from my 2006 lecture and just changed the date, here it is :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I gave my talk &#8220;Around the world in 80 plants&#8221; was 8 (eight) years ago on 6th November 2006 for the local group of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edimentals","category-forest-gardening","category-perennials"],"views":3863,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}