{"id":254,"date":"2011-03-16T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-05-05T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T15:21:49","slug":"dirt-under-my-fingernails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2011\/03\/16\/dirt-under-my-fingernails\/","title":{"rendered":"dirt under my fingernails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just came in from completing Day 4 of <a href=\"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2011\/03\/12\/30-minute-challenge\/\">my challenge<\/a>! I&#8217;ve done pretty well. Sunday, Paul and I both spent about an hour outside &#8211; he cleaning pine straw off the roof and cleaning out the gutters, and me picking up pinecones and sticks. Then I raked for about 45 minutes on Monday, and took yesterday off because it rained. Actually, the rain let up about mid-afternoon so I *technically* could have picked up pinecones at least (yes, we have that many!), but it was also rather chilly. Today I continued raking. All total, we put six 30 gallon bags of leaves out for the trash on Monday, and have collected seven more so far. <\/p>\n<p>Certain areas of the yard look great, but overall it still needs a lot of help. :-) It feels good to see so many bags of leaves at the curb, knowing that my hard work is making a difference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just came in from completing Day 4 of my challenge! I&#8217;ve done pretty well. Sunday, Paul and I both spent about an hour outside &#8211; he cleaning pine straw off the roof and cleaning out the gutters, and me picking up pinecones and sticks. Then I raked for about 45 minutes on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,43,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}