{"id":5690,"date":"2014-05-05T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2014-05-06T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:16:46","slug":"april-showers-may-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/april-showers-may-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"April Showers? May Showers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504c-7990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504c-7990-299x119.jpg\" alt=\"20140504c-7990\" width=\"299\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504c-7990-299x119.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504c-7990-150x60.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140504c-7990.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Some random notes about May:<br \/>\n* peas are starting to come up in raised veg bed #2 with the new pea stands<br \/>\n* the grass went 3 shades more of green over the last few days&#8230; still cold though, risk of frost next two nights.<br \/>\n* astrocats (astronomy trade show in Hamilton) was fun.  Not enough to stay for two days however.<br \/>\n* last wood stove fire tonight!  All of the firewood will be gone.<br \/>\n* so much yard work to do.. so little time.<br \/>\n* damn two stroke engines!  the garden tiller refused to start.  mixed up a fresh batch of high test gas and oil and still refuses to start.  arrg.<br \/>\n* The Napanee Community Food Bank Garden won an award from L&#038;A Hort District 3 annual meeting.  Way to go!<br \/>\n* new rabbit and deer fences have to go up very soon.. this week.. this weekend&#8230; soon.<br \/>\n* yay* another election.  just what we don&#8217;t need, an expensive first past the post election which in a multiparty environment reality, will almost certainly not change anything.  another minority government of one sort or another.  Most of the rest of the world&#8217;s population in democratic countries have far more &#8220;democratic&#8221; systems than we do, parliament or no parliament.  We can expect the &#8220;winners&#8221; to have far less than 50% of the vote of the population, more likely 20-30%.  Let us move to a multiple vote system, re-voting until the winner has a clear 50%+1.  Then the unrepresented minority will only be 50%-1 and not 70-80%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some random notes about May: * peas are starting to come up in raised veg bed #2 with the new pea stands * the grass went 3 shades more of green over the last few days&#8230; still cold though, risk of frost next two nights. * astrocats (astronomy trade show in Hamilton) was fun. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}