{"id":7829,"date":"2017-03-14T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:50:02","slug":"we-clean-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/we-clean-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"We clean the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of ten years of rocks sliding in; and just dust; and evergreen needles. And stuff. The very bottom of the wintering-over pit is, well, due for a cleanout. And a lot of rocks have rolled down there over the years.This is the pond drained down. We&#8217;ve thrown towels over the particularly exposed water lilies to keep them wet.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i49.photobucket.com\/albums\/f269\/Sk8r10\/P1190840.jpg\" alt=\"The draindown\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is Jane, in waders and thermals, at 48 degrees, in the rain, cleaning out the wintering-over pit. She&#8217;s restacked the rocks on the rim, a hands-and-knees job, and the water in that pit is green.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i49.photobucket.com\/albums\/f269\/Sk8r10\/P1190846.jpg\" alt=\"Jane in the draindown\" \/><br \/>\nShe toasts us with a cup of what she&#8217;s scooping out&#8212;old needles, sand, pebbles&#8212;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i49.photobucket.com\/albums\/f269\/Sk8r10\/P1190848.jpg\" alt=\"The gunk.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of ten years of rocks sliding in; and just dust; and evergreen needles. And stuff. The very bottom of the wintering-over pit is, well, due for a cleanout. And a lot of rocks have rolled down there over the years.This is the pond drained down. We&#8217;ve thrown towels over the particularly exposed water lilies to [&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-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","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=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}