{"id":22,"date":"2025-10-10T01:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:46:05","slug":"musings-of-an-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Musings of an intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does anyone else think about trees? I&#8217;m usually pretty normal about this, but whenever my brain gets too quiet, I can&#8217;t get this idea out of my head. Keep in mind that I&#8217;m not at all interested in ecology or STEM at all for that matter. I just can&#8217;t stop thinking about it. Trees are alive; we are companions creatures that give each other air. I saw something saying that trees have a heart beat but it&#8217;s just so much slower than ours. I don&#8217;t understand a lot of the science of it, but with what I&#8217;ve heard about Mycorrhizal relationships, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they were more alive than I considered. Since I see them in the ground, I don&#8217;t register them as alive. I have trees in the same folder in my brain that I have mountains, and those aren&#8217;t alive. Bark is their skin, Wood is their meat, and limbs are their&#8230; <em>limbs<\/em>; I just find it odd that they evolved not to move or make more complex organs. Most creatures need electricity to function, so I used to tink it weird that they (trees) made themselves such a fire hazard- Until I considered how flammable we are when we (humans) get struck by lightning. I could go on for way longer, but I think you get the idea. Life is weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone else think about trees? I&#8217;m usually pretty normal about this, but whenever my brain gets too quiet, I can&#8217;t get this idea out of my head. Keep in mind that I&#8217;m not at all interested in ecology or STEM at all for that matter. I just can&#8217;t stop thinking about it. Trees are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shenaniganery.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}