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  "thread": {
    "id": 1719,
    "subject": "Flowers redux",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-07-21T23:29:11+00:00",
    "last": "1999-07-22T10:38:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0011@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at ibm.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-07-21T23:29:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Flowers redux",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Oh, one thing more. Why, you may ask, am I trying to make something\nShakespearean out of what might be an ordinary kitchen herb garden. Well,\nthe clue is rue. Rue simply isn't grown as an herb any more. It's a very\nbitter herb that I think may still be used to flavor a rather nasty Italian\naperitif (could that be Byrrh?). But it was used as a purgative and a plague\ndeterent in Shakespeare's time. And also in witchcraft, possibly as an\nabortifacent, I think.\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0013@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-07-22T10:38:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Flowers redux",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0011@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alice Turner wrote:\n\nOh, one thing more. Why, you may ask, am I trying to make something\nShakespearean out of what might be an ordinary kitchen herb garden. Well,\nthe clue is rue. Rue simply isn't grown as an herb any more. It's a very\nbitter herb that I think may still be used to flavor a rather nasty Italian\naperitif (could that be Byrrh?). But it was used as a purgative and a plague\ndeterent in Shakespeare's time. And also in witchcraft, possibly as an\nabortifacent, I think."
        },
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          "text": "Aha! You may not grow rue in your herb garden but some people still\ndo, myself included. I believe that it has a use in aromatherapy an\nherbal medicine. About the only use I make of it is in pork sausages\nwhere it cuts the sweet, fat flavours with its bitter taste.  \n\nOh, and it's pretty.  :)\n\nMatthew"
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