{"id":1650,"date":"2012-01-12T07:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/cutting-the-grass-the-old-fashioned-way\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T13:52:17","slug":"cutting-the-grass-the-old-fashioned-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/cutting-the-grass-the-old-fashioned-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the Grass the Old Fashioned Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first came to Swaziland, I found it odd that Swazis tended to get rid of all the grass in their yards, preferring instead to have &quot;swept dirt.&quot;&#160; That didn&#8217;t make sense to me since people in the US spend thousands on keeping their yards neat and green.<\/p>\n<p>But, the first time I cut the grass the way most Swazis do (with a machete-like tool called a &quot;slasher&quot;) I quickly understood the appeal of dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of me giving it my best at Swazi lawn care.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:15f14c9b-a626-42da-9ace-30b3fe64daa2\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0DMrpd7yoAc?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0DMrpd7yoAc?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>It is a short video because as soon as Beth started filming, I had to take a break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first came to Swaziland, I found it odd that Swazis tended to get rid of all the grass in their yards, preferring instead to have &quot;swept dirt.&quot;&#160; That didn&#8217;t make sense to me since people in the US spend thousands on keeping their yards neat and green. But, the first time I cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[712,713,714,653],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-swaziland","tag-cutting-the-grass","tag-landscaping","tag-old-fashioned","tag-swazi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}