{"id":811,"date":"2011-10-01T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=811"},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:11:34","slug":"lawnmowers-and-trimmers-and-sprinklers-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"lawnmowers and trimmers and sprinklers &#8211; oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six o\u0092clock on Saturday night and there is a symphony of lawnmowers buzzing outside my windows.  (Punctuated by the occasional shout from the neighbors where they are apparently watching a football game&#8230;. or playing the world\u0092s most exciting round of Monopoly.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u0092s the frost advisory for tonight that has everyone out trimming the lawns, hoping it\u0092s the last time for months.  So that in a few months when the snow (finally) melts, a neatly manicured lawn appears.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who weren\u0092t ready for frost, that\u0092s probably my fault.  We had our sprinkler system installed last week and it isn\u0092t even hooked up yet.  But we wouldn\u0092t want to spend all that money and then be able to use the thing to water the grass seeds we\u0092ll have to toss down to try to save the lawn in the spots where they dug.  Although, really, the lawn looks no worse than it did before they started.  Which is why we had the sprinklers put in in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my plans to go out this week and buy a new bush to replace the one I killed aren\u0092t the wisest.<\/p>\n<p>I like fall.  But I\u0092m ready for Indian Summer.  Just to get a few things finished. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six o\u0092clock on Saturday night and there is a symphony of lawnmowers buzzing outside my windows. (Punctuated by the occasional shout from the neighbors where they are apparently watching a football game&#8230;. or playing the world\u0092s most exciting round of Monopoly.) Maybe it\u0092s the frost advisory for tonight that has everyone out trimming the lawns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}