{"id":18797,"date":"2019-08-28T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:03:51","slug":"used-the-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18797","title":{"rendered":"Used the mower&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I had to buy a new lawnmower for the house and decided to get a cheap little electric for only 88 bucks on Amazon since the yard is so small&#8230;so today, I put it in the car in the carton to take it over and had to put the top down to make it fit even with how small it is&#8230;it took about a minute to assemble it since the handle just snapped in as did the handle for the bag and those were the only two things I had to do to use it&#8230;I was really surprised how well it coped with grass that was about 5 inches tall and the bag worked good even though it was small and I had to empty it a lot&#8230;but, it&#8217;s also a mulcher so if I mow once a week, I won&#8217;t have to bag at all&#8230;I do need to get my extension cord handling skills back but it wasn&#8217;t too big of a pain so I can live with it&#8230;and just pushing a button to start it is pretty cool&#8230;.and getting the lawn mowed allowed me to put up some barriers that I hope will keep the idiots next door from parking on my damn lawn&#8230;when I got over there yesterday there were two cars at least 3 feet on the parkway in front of the house and they have left tire tracks and killed a bunch of the lawn that I want to restore&#8230;need to get some dirt and grass seed to fill that damage and some next to the driveway entry that is about 8 inches deep&#8230;I was going to paint today but I needed to take advantage of no cars on the lawn, and you know how I am with a new toy&#8230;just had to try it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I had to buy a new lawnmower for the house and decided to get a cheap little electric for only 88 bucks on Amazon since the yard is so small&#8230;so today, I put it in the car in the carton to take it over and had to put the top down to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Used the mower&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18798,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions\/18798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}