{"id":520,"date":"2009-04-20T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","slug":"lawn-mowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/lawn-mowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn Mowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new lawn mower this weekend, as the grass was getting a little out of hand and I apparently did not start craigslisting nearly early enough to get a deal.\u00a0 I settled on a pretty basic gas push mower that does mulching and rear bagging.\u00a0 At the time I thought I got a fairly reasonable deal, since self-propelled mowers were significantly more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>But then I came to work this morning, and found out that for only $70 more (disregard the price in this photo: I did <em>not <\/em>pay $250), Jon got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toro.com\/home\/mowers\/recycler\/20330.html\"><em>magic<\/em> lawn mower<\/a> that he <em>definitely<\/em> doesn&#8217;t have to push himself:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_521\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/elf_propel.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-521\" title=\"Elf-Propelled Lawn Mower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/elf_propel-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"Elf-Propelled Lawn Mower\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elf-Propelled Lawn Mower<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new lawn mower this weekend, as the grass was getting a little out of hand and I apparently did not start craigslisting nearly early enough to get a deal.\u00a0 I settled on a pretty basic gas push mower that does mulching and rear bagging.\u00a0 At the time I thought I got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}