{"id":5118,"date":"2012-07-13T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/trimming-the-landscape\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:40:52","slug":"trimming-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/trimming-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rosemary-trim.jpg' title='rosemary-trim.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rosemary-trim.jpg' alt='rosemary-trim.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the morning trimming the rosemary shrubs that line the back slope of the RV drive. The landscapers put the one-gallon shrubs in a year ago and they have grown nicely &#8211; in fact so well that the bottom row were starting to cover the river rocks stacked along the bottom 30 inches of the slope.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky today, since the sky was overcast (monsoons in progress) and the temperature only got up to about 92 with 40 percent relative humidity &#8211; mandatory perspiration while working. In all, there were 26 shrubs that needed attention. I trimmed several earlier in the week, but quit after a while &#8211; it was around 105 the other day.<\/p>\n<p>The composite photo above (taken after the work) shows the magnitude of the effort. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of the morning trimming the rosemary shrubs that line the back slope of the RV drive. The landscapers put the one-gallon shrubs in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,49,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-home-garden","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}