{"id":250,"date":"2006-05-14T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/14\/i-am-become-a-suburban-yard-mo\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T10:24:33","slug":"i-am-become-a-suburban-yard-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/14\/i-am-become-a-suburban-yard-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Become a Suburban Yard Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after noting that yesterday morning was grey and dismal, I headed over to work to take care of some grading and other sutff, and the clouds lightened up a bit. I went out to run some errands, and the sun came out. so I headed home, and what did I do?<\/p>\n<p>Yard work. Rather than, say, sitting out in the sun with a good book, I spent the nice part of the afternoon mowing the lawn, planting seeds in the herb planters over on the side of the house (my stomach is gradually improving, so I feel safe putting in some basil, sage, parsely, and cilantro), and pulling up some miscellaneous weeds.  Because, of course, the neighbors will think less of me if I fail to maintain a nice lawn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so bourgeois. But not quite bourgeois enough to pay the neighbor kids to mow the lawn for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Physics garden blogging seems to work for <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/05\/13\/jasmine\/\">Clifford<\/a>, so I figure, what the hell&#8230; The other option is exam grading.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after noting that yesterday morning was grey and dismal, I headed over to work to take care of some grading and other sutff, and the clouds lightened up a bit. I went out to run some errands, and the sun came out. so I headed home, and what did I do? Yard work. Rather&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/14\/i-am-become-a-suburban-yard-mo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Am Become a Suburban Yard Monkey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}