{"id":3204,"date":"2026-09-07T14:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:19:25","slug":"the-rarest-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2026\/09\/the-rarest-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rarest Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing,<br \/>\nbut only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming,<br \/>\nand who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3203 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345-1024x370.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345-1536x555.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P-0345-2048x740.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}