{"id":667,"date":"2010-05-02T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T19:06:49","slug":"days-48-54-poison-ivy-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-48-54-poison-ivy-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 48-54: Poison Ivy to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Days-48-54-poison-ivy-.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Days-48-54-poison-ivy-.gif\" alt=\"Days 48-54 poison ivy-\" width=\"76\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>For years I\u2019ve wondered what possible purpose in creation there could be for poison ivy or mosquitoes. Well, I\u2019ve found a use for poison ivy \u2013 a plant to dump my hazardous chemicals on without guilt. You see, after taking all my hazardous materials to the special disposal place last Saturday, I found that even THEY wouldn\u2019t take pesticides or chemical solvents. So, what to do? I thought of cheating and just burying them in the trash but my conscience (my husband) wouldn\u2019t let me do it. Then I remembered that we had some poison ivy in a remote part of the yard. I\u2019d been trying to get rid of it for years. I dumped the liquid on it. I\u2019m still waiting for it to die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Days-48-54-poison-ivy-blankets-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Days-48-54-poison-ivy-blankets-books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 48-54 poison ivy-blankets-books\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By the way, I also chose to give away some ugly blankets from our bedroom and some books that have been on my night stand for way too long. They are \u201cguilt books\u201d \u2013 books that I know would be good for me to read but I just can\u2019t get into them; better pass them on.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I\u2019ve wondered what possible purpose in creation there could be for poison ivy or mosquitoes. Well, I\u2019ve found a use for poison ivy \u2013 a plant to dump my hazardous chemicals on without guilt. You see, after taking all my hazardous materials to the special disposal place last Saturday, I found that even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-fun","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}