{"id":2835,"date":"2014-04-15T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:36:39","slug":"were-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2835","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re murderers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>These would be the bushes that used to grace the front of our house. \u00c2\u00a0Last year, we decided to trim them back and got a little over-zealous.<\/p>\n<p>And, we might have used a little weed killer near them, while trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well. \u00c2\u00a0Kill weeds.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Too add insult to injury, we had an unusually cold winter.<\/p>\n<p>None of this was very appreciated by our lovely bushes, and as spring began, we noticed that there were very few green leaves on our bushes. \u00c2\u00a0Hmm? \u00c2\u00a0In fact, we saw a lot of brown.<\/p>\n<p>We scratched our heads. \u00c2\u00a0Did our bushes usually die off and then spring back to life? \u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;d not really noticed before.<\/p>\n<p>So, we called our friend Larry, who also happens to be a landscaper and has done work for us before.<\/p>\n<p>He took one look and declared them dead and\/or dying. \u00c2\u00a0Likely, from a combination of the above mentioned trim \/ poison \/ cold.<\/p>\n<p>We had no choice.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The bad news? \u00c2\u00a0Having almost every bush in front of your house yanked out costs more than you&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The good news? \u00c2\u00a0Planning the house front landscape ourselves, rather than adopting what the previous owners put. \u00c2\u00a0Which was ALL green.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing some knockout roses and hydrangea in there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the end, keep this in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever let us tend your bushes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These would be the bushes that used to grace the front of our house. \u00c2\u00a0Last year, we decided to trim them back and got a little over-zealous. And, we might have used a little weed killer near them, while trying to&#8230; Well. \u00c2\u00a0Kill weeds. Too add insult to injury, we had an unusually cold winter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}