Today was supposed to rain, but it was a beautiful day and the first day this year that was over 60 degrees. I met a friend for lunch and we blabbed for 2 1\/2 hours, then went for a random walk through the neighborhood. Things of note: sections of the giant sewer tunnel being built under downtown Portland, and the stump of a tree that looked about four feet in diameter (maybe more). The tree was a huge cedar and my friend was upset that they killed such an old tree. I counted the thick rings, and I only counted 22. Wow that thing grew fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was supposed to rain, but it was a beautiful day and the first day this year that was over 60 degrees. I met a friend for lunch and we blabbed for 2 1\/2 hours, then went for a random walk through the neighborhood. Things of note: sections of the giant sewer tunnel being built under downtown Portland, and the stump of a tree that looked about four feet in diameter (maybe more). The tree was a huge cedar and my friend was upset that they killed such an old tree. I counted the thick rings, and I only counted 22. Wow that thing grew fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}