{"id":88,"date":"2019-02-19T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scarecrowkid.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/the-gardener\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:21:00","slug":"the-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scarecrowkid.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/the-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you know in stranger things 2 when theyre escaping the lab with all the demodogs<br \/>\nit&#8217;s basically that<br \/>\nbut some kind of old house<\/p>\n<p><i>but who&#8217;s running away?<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i>im trying to help everyone escape but i can&#8217;t save everyone<br \/>\nso i save different things each time<\/p>\n<div>this time i saved a cat that looked like nibbles and there&#8217;s this old man called &#8220;The Gardener&#8221; and he&#8217;s basically the gatekeeper<\/p>\n<p><i>do you make it out?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>yeah i do<br \/>\ni think i do every time but i don&#8217;t remember<br \/>\nbut he saw me carrying the cat<br \/>\nand he told me that she&#8217;s the one thing that has to stay there<br \/>\nbecause it&#8217;s her home and she&#8217;ll be fine<br \/>\nhe wears this weird mask so it&#8217;s muffled when he talks<br \/>\nand he just gardens<br \/>\neven though there&#8217;s demodogs underneath his house<br \/>\nit&#8217;s really weird<\/p>\n<p><i>i wonder why you had this<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\nme too<br \/>\nim trying to figure out what it means<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s hella scary<br \/>\nim also like slightly afraid of big dogs biting me so that doesn&#8217;t help<br \/>\neven though i love big dogs<\/p>\n<p><i>when you reach the garden<\/i><br \/>\n<i>did he tell you that you could come in<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t seem like im not allowed to roam<br \/>\nhe kinda just minds his own business<br \/>\nthe entrance to the mineshaft kind of area is in the shed<br \/>\nbut the 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\/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>and you will be okay too<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>as long as you&#8217;re able to reach where you&#8217;re supposed to go<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>maybe the garden represents new life<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>and you have to leave the things you have no control over<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>and have faith that they will be okay<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\nthe gardener was this rough character but his words felt tender<br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>because whatever you find there<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>might be the very thing you need<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>but you must go through this process on your own<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>nobody else can go here but you&nbsp;<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>that dark place you once feared<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>im sure you need to make peace with it<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>or 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