{"id":6872,"date":"2011-06-28T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2011-06-28T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:50:59","slug":"garden-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6872","title":{"rendered":"Garden Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5879636276\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5227\/5879636276_151d8c149b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a whole lot to be said about this particular Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>I did stop by a Home Depot in Manhattan, looking and failing to find a garden soaker hose, not even one of the too-long lengths listed on their website. A Home Depot in midtown Manhattan is an odd place, I have to say, not least of all because the bulk of the store is hidden down below and a block deep. I suppose people who live and work in Manhattan must occasionally need lumber and gardening supplies, too, but it was a slightly weird experience. I was only there in the hope that I wouldn&#8217;t have to go buy one in the evening. (Lowes has the length I want listed on their site, but they don&#8217;t have any stores in the city.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t <i>need<\/i> to buy the hose, but the one we have appears to have a hole in it. I&#8217;d like to replace it (and use the replacement) before my parents come home on Thursday. Unless it rains tomorrow, I&#8217;d like to water the tree in the front yard.<\/p>\n<p>This is what passes for excitement this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not a whole lot to be said about this particular Tuesday. I did stop by a Home Depot in Manhattan, looking and failing to find a garden soaker hose, not even one of the too-long lengths listed on their website. A Home Depot in midtown Manhattan is an odd place, I have to say, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6872\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[54,28],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}