{"id":3261,"date":"2011-02-24T18:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/lesson-learned\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:52:49","slug":"lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/lesson-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/weeds.jpg' title='weeds.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/weeds.jpg' alt='weeds.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>We have been finishing up our new home for the past six weeks or so. Meantime, the California backyard responded to the lack of attention and a lot of rainfall with this armpit-high array of weeds. I think these grew faster than the Federal Deficit. Now, I know I should have pulled and hosed down the small weeds (then) with RoundUp. <\/p>\n<p>Weed killing is a ritual I carry out every winter between rain storms but this year, due to our excitement and eagerness to occupy the new home, I overlooked it. Today, I paid the price by getting out there and pulling a bunch of these &#8220;Sequoia Redwoods&#8221; of the weed world. I also sprayed several gallons of RoundUp on the entire back yard except for some of Verna&#8217;s garden treasures.<\/p>\n<p>I still have some cleanup and disposal to do but I ran out of motivation. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been finishing up our new home for the past six weeks or so. Meantime, the California backyard responded to the lack of attention and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}