{"id":771,"date":"2011-09-19T16:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2011-09-19T16:53:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:53:39","slug":"chop-wood-carry-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Chop wood, carry water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t rain this weekend! At all! I celebrated by committing mayhem with the pruning shears.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/prune20110919-1.jpg\" alt=\"pruning results\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and also the other side of the house, and started the semi-annual ivy removal project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/prune20110919-2.jpg\" alt=\"pruning results\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you tell?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/prune20110919-3.jpg\" alt=\"pruning results\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No really, that&#8217;s an &#8220;after&#8221; &#8211; I took all three photos at the same time. Now it looks like an ordinarily overgrown yard rather than &#8220;It&#8217;s going to swallow the house and kill us all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do get more done when I work at home instead of the office, though instead of grad students and postdocs I have this to deal with. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/cat20110919-1.jpg\" alt=\"helpful cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2011\/cat20110919-2.jpg\" alt=\"helpful cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No offense intended to my postdocs, but Morgan is cuter. Although I&#8217;ve never had a postdoc stuff my flash drive down into the couch cushions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t rain this weekend! At all! I celebrated by committing mayhem with the pruning shears. and also the other side of the house, and started the semi-annual ivy removal project. Can you tell? No really, that&#8217;s an &#8220;after&#8221; &#8211; I took all three photos at the same time. Now it looks like an ordinarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}