{"id":13814,"date":"2026-06-10T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:52:50","slug":"what-is-a-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13814","title":{"rendered":"What is a Dandelion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the very interesting book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Fish-Dont-Exist-Hidden\/dp\/1501160346\">Why Fish Don\u2019t Exit<\/a> by Lulu Miller.<\/p>\n<p>To some people, a dandelion might look like a weed, but to others that same plant can be so much more.  To an herbalist, it\u2019s a medicine\u2013a way of detoxifying the liver, clearing the skin, and strengthening the eyes.  To a painter, it\u2019s a pigment; to a hippie, a crown; a child, a wish.  To a butterfly, it\u2019s sustenance; to a bee, a mating bed; to an ant, one point in a vast olfactory atlas.  <\/p>\n<p>The book details the life of David Starr Jordan a taxonomist who controversial life defies classification.  The books is short with some interesting twist and turns in the story.  Recommended. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the very interesting book Why Fish Don\u2019t Exit by Lulu Miller. To some people, a dandelion might look like a weed, but to others that same plant can be so much more. To an herbalist, it\u2019s a medicine\u2013a way of detoxifying the liver, clearing the skin, and strengthening the eyes. To a painter, it\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}