{"id":5089,"date":"2013-08-05T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:47:13","slug":"we-got-our-rain-which-undid-everything-ive-done-to-clear-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/we-got-our-rain-which-undid-everything-ive-done-to-clear-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"We got our rain&#8212;which undid everything I&#8217;ve done to clear the pond&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dose of rainwater can really screw the chemical balance.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;we drain down the pond. I thought the pump might have clogged, but it&#8217;s just the crappy hose&#8212;-I had great hopes for one of those superlight hoses, but the friction inside and the small diameter is such that water does not come out with force. Don&#8217;t bother, unless a half-hearted delivery is ok for your application.<\/p>\n<p>So I work, I write, I run out to check on the pond&#8212;fortunately I can see it from my working chair&#8212;and to get sweated up. With the luxury of as much iced root beer as I can drink (thank you, Soda Stream!) I can stay cool&#8212;it&#8217;s nasty out there&#8212;but a shower is going to be in order: I think I want to use a stick to transport these clothes to the washing machine. And we&#8217;re out of washing soap.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been amazing this year, just real hard to control the algae. But here we go, one more round with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dose of rainwater can really screw the chemical balance. So&#8230;we drain down the pond. I thought the pump might have clogged, but it&#8217;s just the crappy hose&#8212;-I had great hopes for one of those superlight hoses, but the friction inside and the small diameter is such that water does not come out with force. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}