{"id":416358,"date":"2010-03-11T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/colbert-grows-a-crisis-herb-garden\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:48:48","slug":"colbert-grows-a-crisis-herb-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416358","title":{"rendered":"Colbert grows a &#8216;crisis herb garden&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Laskawy <\/p>\n<p>Funny how everything these days is circling back to the garden. Troubled (in every sense of the word) ex-Housemember Eric Massa went on Glenn Beck recently to &#8230; to &#8230; self-immolate. Many progressives tuned in, and thus were exposed to an ad for so-called &#8220;Survival Seeds&#8221;&#8212;a kit for helping you grow your own food in the upcoming apocalypse from precious &#8220;non-hybrid&#8221; seeds. First <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/VshJ3m6ouIo\/glenn-beck-advertise.html\">bloggers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/kkJtHivGdJc\/survival-seeds.php\">snarked<\/a> about it. Then, Colbert joined in and brought the big-time funny.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the ad, Colbert has already started his &#8220;crisis herb garden.&#8221; I think there are many Grist readers who can agree with his logic:<\/p>\n<p>Because I may be ready for a world where the streets run with blood, and zombies rule the night and feast on human flesh. But I refuse to live in a world where I can&#8217;t garnish.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I recommend turning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedsavers.org\/\">Seed Savers<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.territorialseed.com\/\">Territorial Seed Company<\/a> for supplies instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-10-colbert-interviews-annie-leonard\/\">Colbert interviews Annie Leonard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-10-garden-girl-tv-indoor-gardening-part-four\/\">Garden Girl TV: Raised beds in the city<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/florida-everglades-restoration-now-a-bailout-for-us-sugar1\/\">Florida Everglades restoration now a bailout for U.S. Sugar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=8126597a30fcbe558f9460cd1eb53fd7&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=8126597a30fcbe558f9460cd1eb53fd7&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Laskawy Funny how everything these days is circling back to the garden. Troubled (in every sense of the word) ex-Housemember Eric Massa went on Glenn Beck recently to &#8230; to &#8230; self-immolate. Many progressives tuned in, and thus were exposed to an ad for so-called &#8220;Survival Seeds&#8221;&#8212;a kit for helping you grow your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}