{"id":23,"date":"2007-04-04T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T22:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/04\/04\/the-topiary-gardener\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T22:25:12","slug":"the-topiary-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/04\/04\/the-topiary-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"the topiary gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The more I think about it, the more I can see idea of <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>the topiary gardener as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the film.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>While I did not find any of the people that interesting in the film,\u00c2\u00a0something about him makes me curious to know more.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I can see how Morris has set him up to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the tangled mess of it all.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>What really struck me after seeing it again was the scene where he talks about his boss wanting him to create \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the male scarecrow.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>To me that part is more interesting than the whole birthday scene.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>He can give life to the scarecrow and plants, but once he is gone, they will more than likely cease to exist.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I can see the likeness to God with this idea because in a similar way, God gives life, but can easily take it away, as can the gardener in reference to his animal plants.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I think about it, the more I can see idea of \u00c2\u00a0the topiary gardener as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the film.\u00c2\u00a0 While I did not find any of the people that interesting in the film,\u00c2\u00a0something about him makes me curious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/04\/04\/the-topiary-gardener\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}