{"id":5309,"date":"2012-08-27T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2012-08-27T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:46:00","slug":"theres-a-burr-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"There’s a burr oak"},"content":{"rendered":"

in the front yard, maybe forty or forty five feet, but broad, and with a trunk around five feet wide. <\/p>\n

This year it is dropping acorns like it never has before, they lay on the ground a couple layers deep, now. I love the tree, but it’s hollow, and I expect some day soon I will be forced to cut it or trim it back very hard, I will not relish doing either. It has been a lovely tree and it has shaded our home from the late day sun for many years. <\/p>\n

So I have decided to scatter it’s seeds far and wide, so that it’s genetic heritage will spread across the land as far as I can take them. I’ll keep some in my car and put them in the ground wherever I see loamy soil, and maybe hand some off to friends and family. Today I put a handful in the ground at several expressway rest areas. Yeah, maybe hardly any will make it, but they just get eaten in my yard. I owe the big old brute at least to try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in the front yard, maybe forty or forty five feet, but broad, and with a trunk around five feet wide. This year it is dropping acorns like it never has before, they lay on the ground a couple layers deep, now. I love the tree, but it’s hollow, and I expect some day soon I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}