{"id":894,"date":"2007-06-03T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=894"},"modified":"2007-06-03T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:35:16","slug":"mow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/06\/03\/mow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mowed the lawn at our new house for the first time today.\u00c2\u00a0 It was interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Mowing one&#8217;s lawn is a pretty intimate experience, or at least can be.\u00c2\u00a0 More than just a means for getting the yard presentable, it&#8217;s a process of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the new house now dozens of times since the closing.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been all through the basement and even spent time doubled up in the attic crawl space with my cordless drill, but walking around in the grass behind the mower today really made the place feel like ours.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s all about getting in touch with the soil, learning where all the bumps and roots are, discovering the spots where the grass grows longer or thicker than elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I also timed myself.\u00c2\u00a0 About thirty minutes, which isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mowed the lawn at our new house for the first time today.\u00c2\u00a0 It was interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Mowing one&#8217;s lawn is a pretty intimate experience, or at least can be.\u00c2\u00a0 More than just a means for getting the yard presentable, it&#8217;s a process of discovery. I&#8217;ve been in the new house now dozens of times since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-mow","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}