{"id":68,"date":"2004-05-10T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=68"},"modified":"2004-05-10T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T01:44:00","slug":"catkins-tools-of-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Catkins: Tools of Satan!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came home tonight to a cascade of water off the gutters of the house. In the spring, the oak trees that surround my house drop about, oh, forty billion pounds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetotrack.com\/jay\/oaksc2.htm\">Catkins<\/a>, which are brown, stringy things with the ideal properties for clogging gutters. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible to make a more efficient method of clogging gutters without the benefit of portland cement; these suckers work WELL.<\/p>\n<p>So, rain sodden and nasty, I crawl up ladders and slog through mud finding the little dams and removing them, finally getting the waterworks flowing just in time for the rain to stop. <\/p>\n<p>Bastards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came home tonight to a cascade of water off the gutters of the house. In the spring, the oak trees that surround my house drop about, oh, forty billion pounds of Catkins, which are brown, stringy things with the ideal properties for clogging gutters. In fact, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible to make a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}