{"id":43,"date":"2006-11-09T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-12-28T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T08:03:38","slug":"rustling-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/09\/rustling-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustling Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/\">Bahiyyih&#8217;s webble<\/a>, but later moved here.]<\/p>\n<p>Chain of events:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Moldy basement<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate moisture by grading to make water run away from house<\/li>\n<li>Use leftover imported dirt to make flower beds<\/li>\n<li>Realize that dirt is very clay-ey<\/li>\n<li>Decide to amend it with leaves <i>rustled from neighbor&#8217;s yard <\/i>(the rental duplex across the street owned by the nice German Grandma a couple of doors down) <i>at 10:30 pm<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/archives\/leaf_rustling\/20061109_leaf_rustling_2.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20061109_leaf_rustling_2.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/archives\/leaf_rustling\/20061109_leaf_rustling_2-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"532\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bahiyyih has a story all ready:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Well, you see, this is the spot Georgia has to stand in every morning to catch her school bus.  They&#8217;d decompose and &#8230; yeah<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>Edit, for anyone who thought that Bahiyyih might be doing something illicit:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think our neighbors will complain that she is raking away their leaves for free.  Quite the opposite; our next-door neighbor, for example, wanted to pay us $20 to clear the leaves from her yard by mowing them down, although we declined because we were planning to rake most of them anyway, to compost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally posted on Bahiyyih&#8217;s webble, but later moved here.] Chain of events: Moldy basement Eliminate moisture by grading to make water run away from house Use leftover imported dirt to make flower beds Realize that dirt is very clay-ey Decide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/09\/rustling-leaves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}