{"id":18883,"date":"2024-05-04T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2024-05-17T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:30:42","slug":"daily_3361_-_they_destroyed_my_baby_plum_tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/daily_3361_-_they_destroyed_my_baby_plum_tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3361 &#8211; they destroyed my baby plum tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3361_broken_tree.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nOur neighbour has decided that he wants to replace the chain link fence between our yards. The fence is old, several posts having rusted through entirely, so I do kind of understand him. To that end he&#8217;s taken down four trees &#8211; all on his side of the fence so I can&#8217;t object but I&#8217;m still sad to see them go. We used to have a green wall on that side of the garden; now we have free views not just into his garden but across the street and into the homes over there.<\/p>\n<p>What really pissed me off is that one of those trees he felled towards our garden, and it crushed most of my baby plum tree. The one that I waited <b>half a year<\/b> just to get delivered, and then two years to establish and start growing. I didn&#8217;t even get an apology &#8211; not even a note in the mailbox. Eric noticed the broken tree; I investigated and saw the tell-tale sawdust and a handful of maple flowers and twigs.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to the neighbour to complain, his reaction was more or less &#8220;whatever&#8221;. He offered to pay for a new tree, which I will let him do, but that&#8217;s not going to bring back those years of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbour has decided that he wants to replace the chain link fence between our yards. The fence is old, several posts having rusted through entirely, so I do kind of understand him. To that end he&#8217;s taken down four trees &#8211; all on his side of the fence so I can&#8217;t object but I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}