{"id":418,"date":"2011-11-05T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:23:28","slug":"the-national-post-loves-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"The National Post Loves The Untamed Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: #333333; font-size: medium;\"><strong><a title=\"The Untamed Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/untamed+garden\/5626554\/story.html \" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Untamed Garden<\/em><\/a> | National Post<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>&#8220;Positively pornographic.&#8221; That&#8217;s how Sonia Day describes the coco de  mer, &#8220;the most erotically charged plant on the planet.&#8221; Detail is given,  but it&#8217;s unsuitable to print here (see Page 197 of the book). This is a  delightfully lusty look at many plants that we innocents assumed were  just sitting there soaking up the sun. Turns out they&#8217;re sitting there  scheming for sex. Don&#8217;t say you haven&#8217;t noticed, say, orchids, with  their &#8220;titillating tongues and tight little crevices,&#8221; or the amaryllis,  &#8220;so cocky, so lusty.&#8221; The tale of the mandrake (pictured, left) and a  medieval nun is a must-read. The whole book is. ? The Untamed Garden: A  Revealing Look at our Love Affair with Plants, by Sonia Day, McClelland  &amp; Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Untamed Garden | National Post &#8220;Positively pornographic.&#8221; That&#8217;s how Sonia Day describes the coco de mer, &#8220;the most erotically charged plant on the planet.&#8221; Detail is given, but it&#8217;s unsuitable to print here (see Page 197 of the book).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}