{"id":16421,"date":"2026-11-05T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16421"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:14:51","slug":"last-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16421","title":{"rendered":"Last cuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of weeks ago I bought a stunning set of garden shears. The big clipper ones, not the tiddly little secateurs. A few days later I tackled The Brambles of Doom, stuffed their remains into the green bin and it was emptied the next day. Last week I attacked The Other Brambles of Doom, stuffed their remains into the green bin which, hopefully, will be emptied tomorrow. Today I gave the lawn its final cut of the year which lifted the contents in the green bin beyond its &#8216;safe&#8217; margin, but it&#8217;s still wheelable. I&#8217;d like to cut The Front Brambles of Doom, but the green bin will take no more until it&#8217;s emptied. If the weather holds, I&#8217;ll get that job done over the weekend. These jobs are the extent of my &#8216;gardening&#8217; repertoire. Except for chainsawing the occasional tree limb. Or putting the circular saw to the remains of one of the garden fences which keeled over during storm A (or was it storm B?) last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I bought a stunning set of garden shears. The big clipper ones, not the tiddly little secateurs. A few days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16423,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions\/16423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}