{"id":1667,"date":"2003-12-04T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:26:44","slug":"procrastination-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/procrastination-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination Pays Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always trying to teach the boys that procrastination doesn&#8217;t pay, but today proved me wrong. Our back yard is surrounded on two sides by a 4-foot chain link fence and on the third side by a 6-foot wooden privacy fence. The privacy fence, I&#8217;m loathe to admit, is in disrepair. It&#8217;s never really recovered from that storm in 1995 when a tree fell on it. I prop it up and it falls over. The wood is dry and splitting. It barely supports the assault of the neighbor&#8217;s ivy, which is the only thing it has going for it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve planned to build a new fence. We&#8217;ve looked at different fence designs, consulted the Yellow Pages for construction material suppliers, and paced endlessly up and down the length of the fence, considering our options. But, like so many of our projects, we&#8217;ve just never gotten around to it.<\/p>\n<p>Then this week, the sound of power saws and Spanish-spoken curses coming from our neighbor&#8217;s back yard resulted in a new fence. And it&#8217;s a beauty. Our neighbor is uphill from us and a 6-foot privacy fence in his yard is an 8-foot barrier in ours.<\/p>\n<p>Now all that&#8217;s left to do is to dismantle our fence. Another project done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/NewFence1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: privacy fence\" width=\"320px\"><br \/>\n2003-12-05. Old and new fences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}