{"id":17961,"date":"2025-03-30T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=17961"},"modified":"2025-03-30T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:26:00","slug":"farmer-plants-1000-oak-trees-to-create-memorial-for-late-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=17961","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Plants 1,000 Oak Trees to Create Memorial for Late Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer\u2019s affection for his deceased wife is immortalized in a heart-shaped grove of 1,000 oak trees, a beautiful tribute unveiled 17 years later.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, Winston Howes, a farmer from Gloucestershire, England, embarked on a touching endeavor to commemorate his late wife, Janet. He planted 1,000 oak trees on his land, forming a peaceful and lasting symbol of their everlasting love.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8236-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8236-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8236.jpeg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\nFor many years, the grove served as a serene private memorial. Although neighbors valued it, its profound meaning went largely unrecognized. In 2012, an aerial image uncovered a remarkable secret: at the heart of the grove lay a heart-shaped clearing, ideally aligned to face Janet\u2019s childhood home<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8237-300x187.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8237-300x187.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8237.webp 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer\u2019s affection for his deceased wife is immortalized in a heart-shaped grove of 1,000 oak trees, a beautiful tribute unveiled 17 years later. In 1995, Winston&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}