{"id":32,"date":"2008-09-10T21:59:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T06:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-09-10T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T06:59:51","slug":"the-up-side-down-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/2008\/09\/10\/the-up-side-down-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Up-side-down Tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, I would like to point out just how enjoyable <em>saying<\/em> &#8216;up-side-down&#8217; is. <strong>Secondly<\/strong> I will inform my reader&#8217;s that this is truly <em>not<\/em> the case while typing it. I will therefore refer to the Up-side-down Tree (last time, I swear) as the USD tree. Thank you for your cooperation in my mini-boycott.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously!? How do more people not know about this tree? It is located across from Koerner Library, beside the path that leads past the buildings with the astronomy drawings on the ground (Please don&#8217;t refer to them as the &#8220;astrology drawings&#8221; &#8211; the star gazer&#8217;s don&#8217;t like that much). You really can&#8217;t miss it. And I will tell you why (I know the suspense is killing you).<\/p>\n<p><em>Apparently<\/em>, though I am not entirely sure if this is just urban myth or not, but <em>Apparently<\/em> a professor had a wee game of dare\/speculation with some of his past students. His theory was that if you turn a grown tree upside down and plant it again, <em>its roots will become branches and its branches will become roots.<\/em> No word of a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The proof? Look at the coolest tree you will ever see! Check it out! You can <strong>totally<\/strong> tell. If I were my technologically inclined, you wouldn&#8217;t have to go look cause I would just have a picture of the tree posted, but it is definitely worth the 30 second walk from Koerner. The way the leaves hang is gorgeous as well.<\/p>\n<p>So please, if you have a picture of this gorgeous, yet crazy tree, please post it!\u00a0 Definitely something everyone needs to see at least once in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, I would like to point out just how enjoyable saying &#8216;up-side-down&#8217; is. Secondly I will inform my reader&#8217;s that this is truly not the case while typing it. I will therefore refer to the Up-side-down Tree (last time, I swear) as the USD tree. Thank you for your cooperation in my mini-boycott. But seriously!? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}