{"id":2039,"date":"2006-08-04T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:46:01","slug":"week-31-730-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weekly-comparison\/week-31-730-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 31: 7\/30 &#8211; 8\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dateline: 2006<\/strong><br \/>\nThe toad finally let me get close enough to snap his portrait. He jumps into the potted plants after I water them in the morning. I frequently disturb him when I&#8217;m fiddling with the plants, only seeing him when he hops off in a puff. Today I was sitting panting on the step when I noticed him panting in the saucer. I snapped a score of pictures inching closer and closer until I got this one. He was too lethargic to care. I feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>August in Austin is filled with lots of shoulds. I should be watering more. I should be clearing out the many plants that have died. I should be getting my beds ready for a fall garden. I should be starting seeds for fall tomatoes and wildflowers. (I always wonder how the seeds sprout in these temperatures. Doesn&#8217;t it need to be 65 or something? Our overnight lows are in the mid-70s and it&#8217;s never cooler than 80 in the house.) I should be digging holes for planting shrubs and trees.<\/p>\n<p>But every time I step into the searing sunlight I suspect that I&#8217;m part vampire. I saw a T-shirt I want to buy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinx.com\/scripts\/details.asp?affid=-1&#038;productID=484\">The Sun Is Trying to Kill Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The garden this week? Scorched. That&#8217;s normal for us Texans. Sorry that the rest of you guys got stuck with Texas weather or worse this week. We didn&#8217;t plan to export the worst aspects of Texas to the rest of the country. You&#8217;ve probably had enough of that already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/toad1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: garden toad\"><br \/><i>The garden&#8217;s croaked.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}