{"id":3475,"date":"2010-04-11T01:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2010-04-11T01:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:47:37","slug":"you-decide-if-theyre-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-family\/you-decide-if-theyre-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You decide if they&#8217;re pests&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom, grandmother, and youngest nephew rolled in to town today just before I had to leave for work (booo work), and unloaded an SUV full of garden tools and bulbs and bits of rooty green things they&#8217;d plucked from the Triple T Farms soil. I gave them the grand tour of the house and we made several rounds through the yard, my mom and grandmother rattling off names of plants and trees I would have otherwise never been able to identify. (Turns out I got a real vinca problem, which is funny to me because I had three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3877334378\/\">potted vincas<\/a> at the old apartment and just loved them for their robustness. I didn&#8217;t even recognize them in their wild voluntary form.) I regaled them with tales of woodland creatures \u2014 including Hans the chipmunk \u2014 frolicking in my grass. My grandmother informed me that if I didn&#8217;t get a handle on my ivy, it would soon enough overtake my house and eventually my vital organs. Noted, Grandmaw. Noted. <\/p>\n<p>I hated to leave them while I went and slaved for The Man on such a beautiful day, but they apparently passed their time by doing free yardwork for me, and I came home to daffodils on the side of the driveway, hosta in the shady bed behind the second bedroom, cannas along my fence, and a rain tree out front. Holy hell.<\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, there was this note, from my nephew, who had earlier in the day offered to &#8220;take care of&#8221; Hans for me. &#8220;I dunno,&#8221; I told him. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s a pest! And he&#8217;s really cute!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4510323384\/\" title=\"a note from patrick by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2148\/4510323384_5efb085219_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"a note from patrick\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The youngest nephew has clearly been working on his Googling and master-persuader skills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom, grandmother, and youngest nephew rolled in to town today just before I had to leave for work (booo work), and unloaded an SUV full of garden tools and bulbs and bits of rooty green things they&#8217;d plucked from the Triple T Farms soil. I gave them the grand tour of the house and we made several rounds through the yard, my mom and grandmother rattling off names of plants and trees I would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[85,1365],"tags":[500,2266,975,2270],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-family","category-yardlust","tag-family","tag-gardening","tag-nephew","tag-yardlust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-U3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}