{"id":204,"date":"2010-01-13T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/01\/13\/100113_tumbleweed\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:56:09","slug":"100113_tumbleweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/01\/13\/100113_tumbleweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Caged Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think tumbleweeds are mild-mannered critters with no agenda, you&#8217;ve got another think coming. You cannot begin to imagine the epic struggle it took to corral this one. (Word to the wise: never get between a lone tumbleweed and its herd.)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/cagedtumbleweed.jpg\" alt=\"Tumbleweed in a cage\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Of course, the difficult decision is now what to do with this one. The humane thing would be to put a shotgun to its head, but given the difficulty of locating said head and the problems of dealing with a wounded &#8216;weed have made it just about impossible to find anyone around here willing to volunteer for the task. Your ideas are welcomed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think tumbleweeds are mild-mannered critters with no agenda, you&#8217;ve got another think coming. You cannot begin to imagine the epic struggle it took to corral this one. (Word to the wise: never get between a lone tumbleweed and its herd.) Of course, the difficult decision is now what to do with this one.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/01\/13\/100113_tumbleweed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caged Weed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}