{"id":1573,"date":"2019-09-07T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2019-09-07T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:44","slug":"pick-or-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Pick or Pull?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a sign recently that said, \u201cFeel Free to Pick My Weeds.\u201d It occurred to me that I\u2019ve never used the term, \u201cpick weeds.\u201d I alway say, \u201cpull weeds.\u201d I use the term \u201cpick\u201d with flowers \u2014 I <em>pick<\/em> flowers, I don\u2019t <em>pull<\/em> them. Well, of course that got me to wondering\u2026.. does it really matter whether you use pick or pull? Probably not, but I figured\u2026. maybe some extensive research? You bet.<\/p>\n<p>I first headed to the dictionary and both pick and pull have pretty extensive (and varied) definitions.<br \/>\nPick<br \/>\n(1) to choose (something deliberately or carefully, former as if from a group or number; select<br \/>\n(2) to provoke (an argument, fight, etc.) deliberately<br \/>\n(3) a person, thing, etc., that is chosen first or preferred<br \/>\nPull<br \/>\n(1) an act of taking hold of something and exerting force to draw it toward one<br \/>\n(2) move in a specified direction with effort<br \/>\n(3) cancel or withdraw (an entertainment or advertisement)<\/p>\n<p>So based on just the definition(s) of the words, my use of the terms seems more correct.<br \/>\nWhen you pick flowers, you are only taking (choosing) part of the plant (the pretty part) and the remainder of the plant is left to continue to grow.<br \/>\nWhen you pull weeds, the intent is to remove the whole plant, including its roots, so it won\u2019t grow. Obviously in your yard, you can pick or pull weeds if that\u2019s what you want, but in my yard, weeds get <em>pulled<\/em> \u2014 and we <em>pick<\/em> flowers. End of discussion\u2026..<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a sign recently that said, \u201cFeel Free to Pick My Weeds.\u201d It occurred to me that I\u2019ve never used the term, \u201cpick weeds.\u201d I alway say, \u201cpull weeds.\u201d I use the term \u201cpick\u201d with flowers \u2014 I pick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}