{"id":3595,"date":"2016-09-26T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:57:46","slug":"tree-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/tree-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a champion Elm tree growing in my front yard.  It was a great tree, the best, the tallest in my end of the block, over 100 years old.  A couple years ago it succumbed to Dutch Elm disease and had to be cut down, leaving a giant crater.  I finally got around to planting a new tree over the weekend.  It\u2019s a Japanese maple, very nice.  Not so very big yet, but give it a few years.  Obviously it\u2019s a different kind of tree and will never get as mighty as an Elm, but still it ought to fill out the front yard quite beautifully.  While I was at it I also re-graded and re-seeded the lawn.  Luckily my neighbor across the street had pile of dirt he\u2019s looking to get rid of, so I grabbed a few wheelbarrow&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>And, wouldn\u2019t you believe it, Lizzy already banged up the bumper on her car, on the opposite corner from where I painted it.  Ah well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/blogpix\/2016\/tree01_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/blogpix\/2016\/tree01_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a champion Elm tree growing in my front yard. It was a great tree, the best, the tallest in my end of the block, over 100 years old. A couple years ago it succumbed to Dutch Elm disease and had to be cut down, leaving a giant crater. I finally got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/tree-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}