{"id":2139,"date":"2006-07-21T06:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:43:14","slug":"down-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/down-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Turn on the hot water, &#8221; the plumber shouted from the roof as he began snaking out the half-century old sewer lines which have a history of backing up in the kitchen sink whenever the washing machine drains. Leaks in that same section of plumbing necessitated rebuilding the outside wall on that side of the house and gave us the opportunity to move both the electrical and plumbing inside. Now the plumber was almost finished with that day-long job. Problem. The new connection wasn&#8217;t draining.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t hide my pained expression as thousands of gallons of water poured into the waste water lines. <i>Wasted water<\/i>. I&#8211; the same I who dread walking through the garden this time of year as the plants cry out for some relief and I skulk past them making Sophie&#8217;s Choice over which I choose to live&#8211;I stood there with the hose for 45 minutes pouring water down the drain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands and thousands wasted.<\/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\/2139"}],"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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}