{"id":1556,"date":"2009-05-18T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-10-18T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T13:20:09","slug":"dandelion-eradication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/dandelion-eradication\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion Eradication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dandelion<br \/>\nEradication<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nDestruction<\/p>\n<p>Because I want them DEAD.<\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;re doing something different. We&#8217;re picking off the tops. That ought to do it.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I picked the ones that were visible. And took them on a walk. Down our driveway to the highway below. Now they&#8217;re DEAD.<\/p>\n<p>I even took some photos with my cellphone. Because of image quality issues, I didn&#8217;t make the images below Clickable-Into-A-Bigger-Size.<\/p>\n<p><!--more That's all for the home page, so click this for the rest! --><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-1.jpg\" alt=\"A hand-load of dandelions\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-2.jpg\" alt=\"My shadow on Kropf Road.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dumping my dandelions in the middle of the road\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-4.jpg\" alt=\"Those dandelions as seen from road level and looking toward our mailbox\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-5.jpg\" alt=\"Dandelions from half way up our driveway\" \/><br \/>\n<i>red circle marks approximate location of the dandelions<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/dead-6.jpg\" alt=\"A small truck scattering and\/or smashing the dandelions\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Oh, yes!!!<\/i> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\n<i>a small truck scatters and\/or smashes &#8217;em!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Any practical life lessons here?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s how we deal with habits too often. We try to keep the unsightly symptoms and fruits plucked off so the yard of our life doesn&#8217;t look so unkempt and unattractive.<\/p>\n<p>The plant needs to die!<\/p>\n<p>The roots need to die!<\/p>\n<p>We need to feed the good and poison the bad.<\/p>\n<p>Ditto for habits.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dandelion Eradication And Destruction Because I want them DEAD. This year we&#8217;re doing something different. We&#8217;re picking off the tops. That ought to do it. This morning I picked the ones that were visible. And took them on a walk. Down our driveway to the highway below. Now they&#8217;re DEAD. I even took some photos &#8230; <a title=\"Dandelion Eradication\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/dandelion-eradication\/\" aria-label=\"More on Dandelion Eradication\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,5,463],"tags":[869,672],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-my-photos","category-thisandthat","tag-habits","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}