{"id":2762,"date":"2007-08-06T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2012-07-10T02:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:15:14","slug":"it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=2762","title":{"rendered":"It begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lilies have been temporary relocated underneath the lilac. The pond is now roughly 5 feet by 8 feet, and the first shelf (8&#8243; deep) has been excavated. Also, the honeymoon&#8217;s over: after an easy digging in soil and sand, we hit clay. Hard, compact, stone-encrusted clay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadanja\/1121689210_b4d844d73b.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadanja\/1121689210_b4d844d73b-medium-init-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day the second shelf (roughly 16 inches deep) was also done. At the back, we hit a pocket of clay with small mussel-like shells. Could be old denizens of the Stony Swamp, or perhaps fossils of the St-Lawrence sea. Either way, it brings an aura of archaeological mystery to the digging. A clammy aura, maybe, but an aura still.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadanja\/1120845313_a7a197cc57.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadanja\/1120845313_a7a197cc57-medium-init-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lilies have been temporary relocated underneath the lilac. The pond is now roughly 5 feet by 8 feet, and the first shelf (8&#8243; deep) has been excavated. Also, the honeymoon&#8217;s over: after an easy digging in soil and sand, we hit clay. Hard, compact, stone-encrusted clay. &nbsp; At the end of the day the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}