{"id":6081,"date":"2012-05-15T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2012-05-15T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:56:14","slug":"mustve-burned-thousand-million-calories-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/mustve-burned-thousand-million-calories-4-days\/","title":{"rendered":"I Must&#8217;ve Burned a Thousand Million Calories Over the Last 4 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just kidding, of course&#8230; but it sorta feels like it.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth for the last few days&#8230; I got caught up in getting a grip on our back yard. As y&#8217;all know, we recently moved to new digs in Spokane. It&#8217;s beautiful here: lush and green. The homes in our neighborhood are surrounded by a ton of natural vegetation: tall pines, grasses and wildflowers. This is awesome when it comes to taking walks&#8230; but not-so-awesome when it comes to lawn maintenance. Thanks to recent, prolonged\u00a0rainy weather (which made it impossible to mow),\u00a0our\u00a0&#8220;lawn&#8221;\u00a0morphed into a\u00a0dense, tall\u00a0stretch\u00a0of\u00a0tough, thick grasses\u00a0and dandelions. And more dandelions.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not really a devotee of pristine lawns&#8230; in fact, I think they look unnatural.\u00a0Nor do I enjoy\u00a0wasting the precious hours of my life on landscaping &#8211; sculpting hedges and fussing over flower beds definitely ain&#8217;t my thing. But I don&#8217;t want to be the one responsible for infesting everyone else&#8217;s lawns with dandelions, either.\u00a0Despite the objections of my kids (who thought\u00a0the dandelions were pretty cool), they\u00a0really, really had to go.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, large chunks of time (and manual labor) were devoted to\u00a0executing dandelions\u00a0getting\u00a0the back (and front) yard\u00a0under control, as well as digging out an overgrown raised bed (the future home of some tomato seedlings currently basking on the balcony).<\/p>\n<p>This was NOT fun&#8230; and we&#8217;re still not 100% done, either, but at least the yards are\u00a0nominally under\u00a0control. So, back to regular blogging tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just kidding, of course&#8230; but it sorta feels like it. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth for the last few days&#8230; I got caught up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}