{"id":1162,"date":"2009-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/wheres-my-brown-grass.html"},"modified":"2009-07-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","slug":"wheres-my-brown-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/wheres-my-brown-grass.html","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s My Brown Grass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are rapidly closing in on the end of July.  I am still mowing my lawn every 5 days.  That&#8217;s just wrong.  By this time in the season I should be at double that, such that by August my lawn has achieved that delightful  crispy brown palette  which  signifies I can go a full two weeks between thinning the weeds.   By now there should be a stark contrast between my neglected yard and my neighbor&#8217;s well watered, treated, and manicured lawn.  But you can barely tell where the line between our properties is.<\/p>\n<p>Some lament that this cool wet summer is messing with their tan line aspirations, or perhaps they feel they lack ample ambient temperature to achieve their desired perspirations.  I&#8217;m fine with all that.  I just want to stop mowing already.  I want to feel the crunch of grass corpses beneath my feet.  It is time.  It is past time.  Bring on the Global Warming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are rapidly closing in on the end of July. I am still mowing my lawn every 5 days. That&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/wheres-my-brown-grass.html\" title=\"Read Where&#8217;s My Brown Grass?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}