{"id":6345,"date":"2011-04-19T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:12:58","slug":"stop-and-smell-the-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stop-and-smell-the-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop and smell the roses &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and while you&#8217;re at it, pull the weeds growing around them. That&#8217;s been a big part of my week so far, as I try to catch up on a backlog of commissions, kick the tires on a possible new <em>S&amp;G<\/em> spin-off and tidy up the lawns of our <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> abode (with its front-porch view of the Strip, plus some really good plane-spotting), which now includes a rapidly budding rose tree out front. (Did you know that coffee grounds make good mulch?) Last year, I vanquished several armies of ants. This year, it&#8217;s me vs. the weeds but, to date, the weeds are winning. However, it&#8217;s a good, meditative form of exercise: Nothing solves writer&#8217;s block quite like some quality time spent digging crabgrass out of the cracks in your sidewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and while you&#8217;re at it, pull the weeds growing around them. That&#8217;s been a big part of my week so far, as I try to catch up on a backlog of commissions, kick the tires on a possible new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stop-and-smell-the-roses\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}