{"id":1245,"date":"2010-06-02T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2010-06-02T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:35:48","slug":"pruning-the-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/06\/02\/pruning-the-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning the Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crushnet.com\/video\/series\/in-the-vineyard\/ep1-in-the-vineyard-episode-1-pruning-101\">wonderful video<\/a> I found on a winemaking site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crushnet.com\">Crushnet<\/a>.\u00a0 I used it recently to facilitate a discussion of Jesus&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+15%3A1-17&amp;version=NIV\">parable of the vine<\/a>.\u00a0 Two things struck me:\u00a0 (1) pruning is the most important part of growing wine grapes; and (2) the pruning and growing seasons take up much of the years&#8217; work before any fruit is ready for harvest.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"316\" data=\"http:\/\/www.crushnet.com\/vplayer\/files\/videos\/flashvideo\/Pruning_101.flv\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crushnet.com%2Ffiles%2Fvideos%2Fflashvideo%2FPruning_101.flv&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crushnet.com%2Ffiles%2Fishot-16.jpg\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.crushnet.com\/vplayer\/files\/videos\/flashvideo\/Pruning_101.flv\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a wonderful video I found on a winemaking site called Crushnet.\u00a0 I used it recently to facilitate a discussion of Jesus&#8217; parable of the vine.\u00a0 Two things struck me:\u00a0 (1) pruning is the most important part of growing wine grapes; and (2) the pruning and growing seasons take up much of the years&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-k5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}