{"id":981,"date":"2010-04-08T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=981"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:31:15","slug":"men-in-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2010\/04\/08\/men-in-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Men in Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treedudes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treedudes_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treedudes_sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treedudes_sm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes with kids, a friend once told me, &#8220;The days are long by the years are short.&#8221;  Last Monday, though, I think Finn &#038; would&#8217;ve been content to spend all night watching a team of tree trimmers ply their trade among some nearby telephone wires.  It was a beautiful spring evening, and having passed the crew on my way home, I rushed in to tell Finn the news.  He wolfed down the remains of his dinner, and we spent the next hour or so watching &#038; narrating the proceedings: &#8220;That truck have little feet&#8230; What that dude in the cherry picker doing?&#8230; Dude got a leaf blower!&#8221;&#8230; and so on, Finn said, taking little breaks to &#8220;help&#8221; scoop up woodchips using dual spatulas.<\/p>\n<p>I kept hearing Lou Reed&#8217;s &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perfect_Day\">Perfect Day<\/a><\/em>&#8221; playing in my head.  The only thing better would be to have Henry and Margot along for the ride, though I think it&#8217;ll be a bit before the little guy can handle the roar of a wood chipper. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>[Click for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treedudes.jpg\">larger image<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes with kids, a friend once told me, &#8220;The days are long by the years are short.&#8221; Last Monday, though, I think Finn &#038; would&#8217;ve been content to spend all night watching a team of tree trimmers ply their trade among some nearby telephone wires. It was a beautiful spring evening, and having passed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}