{"id":275,"date":"2017-09-16T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-09-19T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T02:09:16","slug":"adam-purple-creator-of-ny-garden-of-eden-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Adam Purple, Creator of NY Garden of Eden, Dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brilliant Environmentalist and Urban Farmer &#8211;<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">NY City Destroyed the Garden of Eden<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_276\" style=\"width: 737px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yardeats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Garden-of-Eden.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yardeats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Garden-of-Eden.jpg?resize=640%2C370\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yardeats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Garden-of-Eden.jpg?w=727 727w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yardeats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Garden-of-Eden.jpg?resize=300%2C173 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NY Garden of Eden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adam Purple passed last week in NY City. \u00a0He was a famous environmentalist and urban farmer who created a fantastic garden in the middle of an abandoned area of New York. \u00a0It lasted for years, until the greedy NY politicians seized the land and tore up the garden, which had become a tremendous community asset, both for the food it produced and for the restful place that folks could gather around.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the short documentary below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/29275235?badge=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/29275235\">Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/harveywang\">Harvey Wang<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video of Adam Purple speaking at the opening of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jaJQRhrtInk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRIP to New York&#8217;s controversial recycler and gardener, Adam Purple, creator of the Garden of Eden in NY.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant Environmentalist and Urban Farmer &#8211; NY City Destroyed the Garden of Eden Adam Purple passed last week in NY City. \u00a0He was a famous environmentalist and urban farmer who created a fantastic garden in the middle of an abandoned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,18,82],"tags":[138,141,139,140],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jMAM-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}