{"id":535,"date":"2002-07-19T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2002-07-19T13:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/07\/diggin-dirt\/"},"modified":"2002-07-19T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2002-07-19T13:44:51","slug":"diggin-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/07\/diggin-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Diggin&#8217; Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after the hottest, driest three weeks I can remember, my mom and I went out and dug three huge holes in my weed-choked back garden.  Why?  To save some very pretty Russian sage.  My parents had some landscaping done, and didn&#8217;t have a place for their Russian sage &#8211; besides which, my mom is allergic to it.  Now I have something that isn&#8217;t weeds in my garden, and sore muscles to prove that I dug the holes.  I also figured out why my pepper plants are dying one-by-one&#8230;some little critter is chewing through the base of the stalks.  Grrr.  On my way home, I&#8217;m going to get some wire mesh to wrap around the base of each remaining plant.  Hopefully that will help.  As it is, I&#8217;m down to three completely undamaged plants, and a couple that probably won&#8217;t survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after the hottest, driest three weeks I can remember, my mom and I went out and dug three huge holes in my weed-choked back garden. Why? To save some very pretty Russian sage. My parents had some landscaping done,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}