{"id":1846,"date":"2020-04-15T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:27:42","slug":"grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2275-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1842\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I always look forward to this time of year \u2014 I\u2019m not a big fan of cold weather and usually, by now, the weather is getting consistently warmer around here. Of course this year is a \u201cdifferent\u201d year, for lots of reasons \u2014 many of them having nothing to do with the weather.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the first three or four months of this year has been a few days of unseasonably warm weather, followed by several days of very cold weather, the trees are beginning to get leaves and the grass is growing \u2014 the picture is our back yard after the last cutting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be nice if the weather always offered the ideal conditions for lawns to thrive \u2014 60 degrees at night and 80 degrees during the day, and two-inches of soft, steady rain every week\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t happen, and the grass still manages to grow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t look forward to cutting the grass, but I really don\u2019t mind it either \u2014 given the choice, I\u2019d rather cut grass than shovel snow. Someone once said that grass is the cheapest plant to install and the most expensive to maintain. I guess that may be true, but it\u2019s nice to look out and see that nice green carpet all around the house. Of course, there is one good thing about snow \u2014 it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor\u2019s\u2026..<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always look forward to this time of year \u2014 I\u2019m not a big fan of cold weather and usually, by now, the weather is getting consistently warmer around here. Of course this year is a \u201cdifferent\u201d year, for lots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1846\">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\/1846"}],"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=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}