{"id":2158,"date":"2010-10-13T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:15:34","slug":"ahh-cool-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Ahh &#8230; cool weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/david-mowing-2.JPG' title='david-mowing-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/david-mowing-2.JPG' alt='david-mowing-2.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rarely post photos of myself, but today I&#8217;ll make an exception. James-Michael, a friend visiting from California, took this photo of me mowing beside the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how weather makes all the difference. Mowing the grass in the heat of summer is a miserable job. But when it&#8217;s 69F out, mowing is a joy. The area behind me, by the way, is what I call the rabbit patch. The area used to be covered with pine trees, which I removed in February of 2008. The area is very steep and very rough, so I&#8217;m letting it go back to woods. I planted four arbor vitae trees below the driveway. They&#8217;re doing well, and the deer leave them alone.<\/p>\n<p>The Snapper mower, by the way, does a beautiful job mowing the steep and uneven grounds of Acorn Abbey. It&#8217;s the Jeep of lawn mowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely post photos of myself, but today I&#8217;ll make an exception. James-Michael, a friend visiting from California, took this photo of me mowing beside the driveway. It&#8217;s amazing how weather makes all the difference. Mowing the grass in the heat of summer is a miserable job. But when it&#8217;s 69F out, mowing is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ahh &#8230; cool weather&#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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}