{"id":1928,"date":"2010-05-31T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:04:56","slug":"hand-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Hand tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-bent-mattock-1.JPG' title='aa-bent-mattock-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-bent-mattock-1.JPG' alt='aa-bent-mattock-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This old mattock couldn&#8217;t stand up to Ken&#8217;s demands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though we used a rented gasoline-powered augur to drill the holes for the fence posts, and though we frequently use a battery-powered drill and screw driver, otherwise we are using hand tools this summer. Ken is strong and doesn&#8217;t mind the work, and in most cases the hand tools are much safer.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-ken-sawing-1.JPG' title='aa-ken-sawing-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-ken-sawing-1.JPG' alt='aa-ken-sawing-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken saws a post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-post-hole-diggers-1.JPG' title='aa-post-hole-diggers-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/aa-post-hole-diggers-1.JPG' alt='aa-post-hole-diggers-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken planting a post for a hose rack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old mattock couldn&#8217;t stand up to Ken&#8217;s demands. Though we used a rented gasoline-powered augur to drill the holes for the fence posts, and though we frequently use a battery-powered drill and screw driver, otherwise we are using hand tools this summer. Ken is strong and doesn&#8217;t mind the work, and in most cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hand tools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}