{"id":226,"date":"2004-06-05T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-06-05T23:15:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-06T06:15:04","slug":"pick-up-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Pick-up-sticks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was up at my friend Greg&#8217;s house today where he had a big barbeque and we were all supposed to be picking up sticks. He took 5 acres of tree farm and turned it into a meadow so his daughter could have horses. Now that the trees are gone and the ground is levelled off, there are a lot of branches that need to to be picked up before the tractor with the discs can do its discing. Often this involves a harrow. In Greg&#8217;s case, it involved his dumber friends. Lots of people were there, but only a half dozen of us were out piling up the sticks. Most of the time it was just Larry and I.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a lot more to do and Greg, being the laziest man on the planet, has his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up at my friend Greg&#8217;s house today where he had a big barbeque and we were all supposed to be picking up sticks. He took 5 acres of tree farm and turned it into a meadow so his daughter could have horses. Now that the trees are gone and the ground is levelled off, there are a lot of branches that need to to be picked up before the tractor with the discs can do its discing. Often this involves a harrow. In Greg&#8217;s case, it involved his dumber friends. Lots of people were there, but only a half dozen of us were out piling up the sticks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pick-up-sticks.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}