{"id":614,"date":"2002-08-02T20:27:43","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:55:18","slug":"weeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/weeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t spend much time in the garden in July. We had enough rain during the first couple of weeks that I didn&#8217;t need to spend every morning watering. Then we were away on vacation. Although the garden looked like a jungle before we left, I was unprepared for the explosion of green that greeted us on our return. Other than immediately mowing the lawns, I avoided going into the garden all last week.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of life&#8217;s overwhelming tasks, weeding is best tackled a bit at a time, but with consistent effort. I figured that the yard has done allright without me for over a month, so rather than be distracted by the massive amount of work to be done, yesterday I started weeding just one bed.<\/p>\n<p>I worked at it an hour and then quit. Today I did the same on the bed adjoining. A wonderful feeling of accomplishment comes of controlling the weeds in two small spaces. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll do another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once begun is half done.&#8221;<\/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\/614"}],"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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}