{"id":1334,"date":"2009-02-25T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:07:41","slug":"a375-grass-frond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"#a375 :: Grass frond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1335\" title=\"022509\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022509-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"022509\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022509-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022509-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022509.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I walked back to the house this morning after dropping the kids at school.<\/p>\n<p>I brushed the foliage outside our house with my hand.<\/p>\n<p>This came loose.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping my rhythm so I could square up head-on with the workday, I stuck it into a clutch of hibernating <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=agapanthus&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi\">agapanthus<\/a> and kept cruising down the front steps (we live on a hill).<\/p>\n<p>Then I envisioned the grass frond drying out and casting its seeds, and fronds of grass growing up <i>through<\/i> the agapanthus.<\/p>\n<p>So I plucked it out and turned it to a better purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Separating the grass from the plant would have been tedious, and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Ars longa. Yardwork longest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked back to the house this morning after dropping the kids at school. I brushed the foliage outside our house with my hand. This came loose. Keeping my rhythm so I could square up head-on with the workday, I stuck it into a clutch of hibernating agapanthus and kept cruising down the front steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-object","category-jetsam","category-life-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}