{"id":618,"date":"2009-03-16T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-03-16T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T14:56:46","slug":"special-skills-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Special Skills Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On town meeting day, the school gymnasium was rife with rumors about the imminent Wife Swap.  I don&#8217;t know how many little old ladies I had to convince that I really wasn&#8217;t going to make the swap. Really!  <\/p>\n<p>This weekend the maple sap ran and so did I, from one outdoor project to another.  I stoked fires, hauled buckets of sap, climbed ladders, and clipped branches.  And I  must say, it all made me think about how likely it would be that NBC could find a replacement wife that would be willing to finish off the strange pruning that Maurice the moose began or clean up after a moose that had chewed his way through an orchard of fiber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2009\/03\/100-7489-1.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"460\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"100_7489.JPG\" title=\"100_7489.JPG\" \/><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2009\/03\/100-7485-1.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"345\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"100_7485.JPG\" title=\"100_7485.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nAs my grandfather would have said, &#8220;Not Bloody Likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On town meeting day, the school gymnasium was rife with rumors about the imminent Wife Swap. I don&#8217;t know how many little old ladies I had to convince that I really wasn&#8217;t going to make the swap. Really! This weekend the maple sap ran and so did I, from one outdoor project to another. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special Skills Needed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}