{"id":11100,"date":"2012-03-20T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:00:43","slug":"you-know-you-spend-too-much-time-on-the-internet-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/you-know-you-spend-too-much-time-on-the-internet-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You Spend Too Much Time On The Internet When&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went into the nursery last week, and I asked to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lileks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221; the man asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lileks,&#8221; I said.  Well, it&#8217;s not what I tried to say, but that&#8217;s what it sounded like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, the lilacs,&#8221; he said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I got some.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/Lilacs.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"The Lileks I planted.\"><\/p>\n<p>My beautiful wife pointed out that we planted a lilac bush at our first home, too, when we received it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arborday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arbor Day Foundation<\/a> for a donation (Democrats and progressive &#8220;independents,&#8221; please ignore.  Remember, Republicans <em>hate the environment<\/em>).  <\/p>\n<p>When we moved to Old Trees, we had a maple tree in the front yard prone to dropping limbs on our neighbors&#8217; car, so after we had that taken out, we got three lilac bushes from <a href=\"http:\/\/rollingridgenursery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Ridge Nursery<\/a> and planted them.  By now, those bushes are getting pretty big and were blooming well when we moved out.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have the first two at Nogglestead.  Eventually, I might add a couple more around the LP tank.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew my signature plant would prove to be the lilac?  Or, as I apparently pronounce it after a decade of readership, the Lilek?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went into the nursery last week, and I asked to see the Lileks. &#8220;What?&#8221; the man asked. &#8220;The Lileks,&#8221; I said. Well, it&#8217;s not what I tried to say, but that&#8217;s what it sounded like. &#8220;Oh, the lilacs,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11103,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions\/11103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}