{"id":3155,"date":"2013-06-21T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T08:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2013-06-22T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T08:46:11","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130621-043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3157 alignright\" alt=\"winter solstice 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130621-043-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130621-043-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130621-043.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year started with a beautiful dawn which was followed by a bright, sunny and crisply cool day. \u00a0I took advantage of the last dry day forecast for the week and slashed the onion weed in the plantation. \u00a0I managed 2\/3 of it before the slasher started getting a bit hot. \u00a0The onion weed is as tough as leather straps and\u00a0you can hardly cut it where it is full height and full thickness, \u00a0the blade just gets caught and grinds to a halt, which is not very good for the bearings. \u00a0It was just as well I had already done one pass <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/slashing\/\">5 weeks ago<\/a>\u00a0or I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to get through it. \u00a0 We also fired up the lawnmower and cut the arena grass. \u00a0The three rotary cylinders on the 20 year old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransomesjacobsen.com\/highway3?country=100\" target=\"_blank\">Ransomes<\/a>\u00a0don&#8217;t even touch the onion weed as it is too long to feed in. \u00a0We are going to make a weed killing wicking bar to tackle the onion weed in the arena. \u00a0Apparently it is quite easy and involves some canvas and a length of pvc pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year started with a beautiful dawn which was followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130621-043.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}