{"id":246,"date":"2011-03-12T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T23:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=246"},"modified":"2011-03-13T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T20:42:17","slug":"30-minute-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2011\/03\/12\/30-minute-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"30 minute challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I am going to attempt a challenge for myself this week. We&#8217;ll see how this goes, as in the past I&#8217;m not very good at challenges. :-)<\/p>\n<p>For the next 7 days (this upcoming week), I am going to spend 30 minutes a day outside, picking up pine cones, small branches, and raking leaves. (Yes we never really raked the leaves from last fall. I know, our yard looks terrible.)<\/p>\n<p>Picking up pine cones and raking up pine needles is an endless job in our neighborhood, and I get bummed before I even start. I&#8217;m hoping that by breaking it into 30 minute increments, I&#8217;ll be less overwhelmed and the yard will look *that* much better.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception is if it rains, which should just be Tuesday. Otherwise, I&#8217;ll be outside every day for at least 30 minutes. This counts as exercise, right? I&#8217;ll try to remember to take before and after pictures, in case there&#8217;s a noticeable difference. (I filled four 30 gallon bags of leaves this afternoon and you can hardly tell.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I am going to attempt a challenge for myself this week. We&#8217;ll see how this goes, as in the past I&#8217;m not very good at challenges. :-) For the next 7 days (this upcoming week), I am going to spend 30 minutes a day outside, picking up pine cones, small branches, and raking leaves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,44,43,19,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}