{"id":2759,"date":"2010-04-24T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:40:29","slug":"gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2760\" title=\"AprilShowers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/aprilshowers.jpg?w=376\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"450\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We may live in an agricultural state, but I am certainly NOT a farmer.<\/strong> Considering my lawn is currently the only &#8216;crop&#8217; that I attempt to grow doesn&#8217;t say too much. Farming a yard is pointless when you think about it. All the chemical controls, pruning of weeds, irrigation and cutting yield nothing more than a nice green carpet for all your efforts. If your neighbors don&#8217;t do their part to control the weeds, your work is pretty much all in vain. It&#8217;s the one crop that bears no fruit but gets &#8216;harvested&#8217; several times a month. If you don&#8217;t mulch, you take the spoils and bag them to the curb. Why do we toil so hard for such a &#8216;crop&#8217;? Well, aside from preventing erosion, I&#8217;d say vanity. How insane is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may live in an agricultural state, but I am certainly NOT a farmer. Considering my lawn is currently the only &#8216;crop&#8217; that I attempt to grow doesn&#8217;t say too much. Farming a yard is pointless when you think about it. All the chemical controls, pruning of weeds, irrigation and cutting yield nothing more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[30,384],"tags":[428,429],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons","category-spring","tag-dandelions","tag-weeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8064,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}