{"id":563,"date":"2011-04-15T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/04\/15\/110415-truckandmulch\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:02:24","slug":"110415-truckandmulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/15\/110415-truckandmulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spousal Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies, when it comes to manly things, don&#8217;t ever tell your husband that something he&#8217;s trying isn&#8217;t going to work. It&#8217;s like trying to teach a pig to dance. It never works, and it annoys the pig.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For example, don&#8217;t ever say something like this:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can get forty bags of mulch in this pickup.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Or this:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think those will ride like that.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because if you do, you&#8217;ll ensure that he does something like this:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/truckmulch.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" alt=\"Photo of Honda Ridgeline loaded with 40 bags of mulch\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div>On the other hand, I guess this tactic might be effective in getting something done that might not otherwise get done.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies, when it comes to manly things, don&#8217;t ever tell your husband that something he&#8217;s trying isn&#8217;t going to work. It&#8217;s like trying to teach a pig to dance. It never works, and it annoys the pig.&nbsp; For example, don&#8217;t ever say something like this: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can get forty bags of mulch&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/15\/110415-truckandmulch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spousal Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-tools-diy","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\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}