{"id":335,"date":"2014-12-18T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:25:24","slug":"hampshires-watercress-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire&#8217;s Watercress Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watercress is one of the 80 plants in the book, a plant that has spread worldwide reputedly due to the habit of the Englishman for eating watercress sandwiches on the banks of rivers around the world (the stems root easily!). ;-) \u00a0This picture of the Watercress line appeared in the on-line Guardian today:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The watercress line\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/picture\/2014\/dec\/17\/eyewitness-hampshire-steam-train-watercress-line?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/picture\/2014\/dec\/17\/eyewitness-hampshire-steam-train-watercress-line?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Watercress line was opened in 1865 and was well known for\u00a0its early role transporting locally grown watercress to the markets in London. \u00a0The section of \u00a0the Watercress Line from Alresford to Alton is operated today as a Heritage railway and I remember taking the kids on it when they were small. I grew up not far away in Eastleigh.<\/p>\n<p>Much more on this plant around the world in the book!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watercress is one of the 80 plants in the book, a plant that has spread worldwide reputedly due to the habit of the Englishman for eating watercress sandwiches [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennials"],"views":3893,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}