{"id":98,"date":"2006-01-30T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-04-03T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:30:14","slug":"abandoned-in-autumn-and-left-outside-all-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/abandoned-in-autumn-and-left-outside-all-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned in autumn and left outside all winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/01\/my-chlorophyllic-nemeses\/\">The other day<\/a> I got very excited at the prospect of doing some gardening over the weekend. I hadn&#8217;t expected it to be quite so cold. However, on Sunday afternoon, after having been party to the sun&#8217;s rays for a few hours, the back garden finally warmed up to a bearable temperature, and I ventured out for a couple of hours before the light faded and I was forced back inside.<\/p>\n<p>I raked up leaves on the lawn, and swept up leaves on the patio. I also discarded the remains of a few potted plants which had been abandoned in autumn and left outside all winter. I cut back the ivy on the fence, and dug up some of the larger areas of weeds in the borders with my<footnote>Well, my dad&#8217;s<\/footnote> new<footnote> Okay, technically they are 30 years old, but they are in immaculate condition<\/footnote> spade<footnote>Some people call a spade a shovel. That&#8217;s fine<\/footnote> and fork<footnote>At this point, I&#8217;d usually make a joke, but I&#8217;m at a loss<\/footnote>.<\/p>\n<p>The compost bin has gone from full to&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t know what comes after full. It&#8217;s not overflowing, it&#8217;s just intensely dense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I got very excited at the prospect of doing some gardening over the weekend. I hadn&#8217;t expected it to be quite so cold. However, on Sunday afternoon, after having been party to the sun&#8217;s rays for a few hours, the back garden finally warmed up to a bearable temperature, and I ventured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}