{"id":121697,"date":"2021-08-28T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-garden-at-ground-zero-what-i-learned-growing-an-oasis-in-the-shadow-of-9-11\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T11:04:02","slug":"a-garden-at-ground-zero-what-i-learned-growing-an-oasis-in-the-shadow-of-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-garden-at-ground-zero-what-i-learned-growing-an-oasis-in-the-shadow-of-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"A garden at Ground Zero: what I learned growing an oasis in the shadow of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSoon after 9\/11, I moved into an old building by Ground Zero. First step? Plant an unlikely patch of greenIf you listen, I mean really listen, you will hear your garden speaking to you. Mine, which sits on a 10th-floor Manhattan terrace, a stone\u2019s throw from where the World Trade Center stood, first spoke to me on a crisp September morning 20 years ago. I had jury duty that day and decided to walk the two miles south from my home in Greenwich Village down to the courthouse in the financial district.But when I turned south on to 6th Avenue, I looked up to see see an orange hole flaming at the centre of the tower ahead of me. A woman nearby fell to the pavement, screaming something about a plane. It didn\u2019t seem like a good day to go downtown; yet something compelled me to continue south. When I arrived at a gas station on Canal Street, a boom sounded and a puff of smoke issued from just behind the tower. \u201cWhat was that?\u201d I asked a taxi driver, filling his tank nearby. \u201cWell, see those two buildings are connected with pipes,\u201d he said with the unquestionable authority endemic to New York cabbies. \u201cWhen you get a fire in one it spreads and you get a fire in the other.\u201d Makes sense, I thought, and pushed southwards. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/aug\/28\/a-garden-at-ground-zero-what-i-learned-growing-an-oasis-in-the-shadow-of-911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A garden at Ground Zero: what I learned growing an oasis in the shadow of 9\/11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Soon after 9\/11, I moved into an old building by Ground Zero. First step? 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