{"id":3033,"date":"2008-09-14T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2008-09-14T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T21:15:00","slug":"plant-a-radish-get-a-radish-never-any-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Plant a Radish, Get a Radish, Never Any Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal infusion of support into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have had one side effect: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122127658261431651.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">rates have dropped<\/a>. As such, we&#8217;ve started to explore a re-fi again, and this means we&#8217;re getting an appraisal. As such, I wanted the house to look the best, so this weekend I decided to do something about the large patch of dirt <a href=\"http:\/\/cahwyguy.livejournal.com\/551887.html\" target=\"_blank\">I dug up a while ago<\/a>. So, this morning I went over to Lowes and picked up the equivalent of about 3 flats of various annuals: snapdragons, French mini-marigolds, impatiens, gum balls, and other assorted stuff. I then planted them all in the bed. Of course, I&#8217;m exhausted from all the digging, but the flower bed looks great.<\/p>\n<p>[Of course, the one recent medical oddity struck again: for some reason, when I do work like this, my head just starts schvitzing and schvitzing. I keep a towel around, and drink plenty of fluids while I work, but it&#8217;s just annoying. I&#8217;m guessing it is a side effect of the beta blockers.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal infusion of support into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have had one side effect: rates have dropped. As such, we&#8217;ve started to explore a re-fi again, and this means we&#8217;re getting an appraisal. As such, I wanted the house to look the best, so this weekend I decided to do something about the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3033\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}