{"id":15849,"date":"2018-10-06T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:30:16","slug":"tree-felling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15849","title":{"rendered":"Tree Felling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15851\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15851\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Felled Colorado Spruce\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15851\" data-wp-pid=\"15851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_20181006_159219.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felled Colorado Spruce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I finally got around to cutting down the dead or nearly dead Colorado spruce (<em>Picea pungens<\/em>) in our front yard today. I took both before and after pictures and I may put two together into an animated sequence that switches back and forth between the before and after. For now, this is (obviously) the &#x201c;after&#x201d; picture. I cut the tree off fairly far up the trunk to be sure it wouldn&#8217;t reach the driveway. I could probably have cut it a bit lower and it would have been easier, but I got it down without incident. Since then (I&#8217;m writing this on Wednesday, October 11) we&#8217;ve cut and dealt with most of the branches although the standing trunk is still there and about 8 feet of felled trunk is still lying next to it. I took one van load to the dump and I&#8217;ve burned four wheel barrow loads. I still haven&#8217;t decided what I&#8217;ll plant in its place or even how much effort I&#8217;ll put into dealing with the stump and roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to cutting down the dead or nearly dead Colorado spruce (Picea pungens) in our front yard today. I took both before and after pictures and I may put two together into an animated sequence that switches back and forth between the before and after. For now, this is (obviously) the &#x201c;after&#x201d; &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1305,316,1303,1304,1302,460,160,1301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15853,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions\/15853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}