{"id":861,"date":"2009-12-30T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2011-01-02T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T00:51:32","slug":"the-weird-swedish-lady-with-the-pick-ax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"the weird Swedish lady with the pick ax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-860\" title=\"tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd-truck-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd truck\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/>Jose, tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsm\u00e4staren, kom f\u00f6rbi en sv\u00e4ng idag. Och som han skrattade: &#8221;That\u00b4s a lot of digging, what are you doing?&#8221; fr\u00e5gade han medan han skrattade. &#8221;No one does that kind of work around here you know. Not in this area.&#8221; Mer skratt.<\/p>\n<p>Jag t\u00e4nkte att han har ju r\u00e4tt i det. Man ser aldrig n\u00e5gonsin n\u00e5gon gr\u00e4va i tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden h\u00e4r. Eller kratta l\u00f6v. Eller ens bl\u00e5sa bort l\u00f6v med hj\u00e4lp av en mycket h\u00f6gljudd maskin. Fysiskt arbete, i synnerhet inte tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsarbete, \u00e4r helt enkelt inte ett jobb f\u00f6r en vit medelklassamerikan som tj\u00e4nar bra med pengar.<\/p>\n<p>Nu har mina grannar sett mig gr\u00e4va och hacka d\u00e4r ute i flera dagar, s\u00e5 jag misst\u00e4nker att de har bildat sig en uppfattning om mig som, well,\u00a0 lite m\u00e4rklig. Det \u00e4r v\u00e4l ok, det kan jag ta.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00f6rresten har jag h\u00f6rt talas om att grannen tre hus l\u00e4ngre ner\u00e5t gatan, Alice heter hon, \u00e4r &#8221;the compost queen&#8221; och att hon dessutom har gjort om hela framsidan av huset till ett tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsland. Jag har inte sett det f\u00f6r det \u00e4r inte s\u00e5 bra insyn till hennes hus, men det l\u00e5ter alldeles fantastiskt sp\u00e4nnande.<\/p>\n<p>Jag ska ta ett snack med Alice endera dagen. F\u00e5 en lektion i kompostering och lite inspiration till ett rej\u00e4lt tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsland. T\u00e4nk om jag skulle harva upp ett norrl\u00e4ndskt potatisland p\u00e5 tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsmattan framf\u00f6r huset helt enkelt. Show them!<\/p>\n<p>(Den d\u00e4r trucken var full med jord i morse. Nu har jag t\u00f6mt den. Jag och Jeff har t\u00f6mt den. Det regnade hela tiden.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose, tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsm\u00e4staren, kom f\u00f6rbi en sv\u00e4ng idag. Och som han skrattade: &#8221;That\u00b4s a lot of digging, what are you doing?&#8221; fr\u00e5gade han medan han skrattade. &#8221;No one does that kind of work around here you know. Not in this area.&#8221; Mer skratt. Jag t\u00e4nkte att han har ju r\u00e4tt i det. Man ser aldrig n\u00e5gonsin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,44,8],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grannar","tag-miljo","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}