{"id":68,"date":"2015-11-24T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:08:12","slug":"christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2015\/11\/24\/christmas-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well today is the day I&#8217;ll be cutting my Christmas tree.\u00a0 I&#8217;m one of the lucky folks who has the ability to just walk out to the &#8220;back forty&#8221; and cut down a tree off of my own property.\u00a0 Just one of the benefits of having a farm, I guess!\u00a0 You can plan your own Christmas tree needs and take care of that with very little trouble.\u00a0 I was noticing that the live Christmas vendors are selling live trees for $60 and up this year!\u00a0 I think that is a pretty steep price!\u00a0 And a lot of the live Christmas trees that consumers buy off of tree lots (and some farms) are covered with chemicals used to control pests.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t spray my trees, so I&#8217;m confident that whatever tree I bring into the house is chemical free.\u00a0 And for every tree that I cut down, I plant three in its place so I don&#8217;t feel too bad about wreaking havoc on the environment by cutting down a tree on my own farm.\u00a0 I think that if I didn&#8217;t have that option of cutting down my own tree on my own farm that I&#8217;d probably buy an artificial one &#8211; they don&#8217;t cost that much anymore and are easy to care for.\u00a0 The only problem with them, as far as I&#8217;m concerned is where to store them in the &#8220;off season!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2670\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ctree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ctree.jpg\" alt=\"fresh cut\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can&#8217;t Get Any Fresher Than This<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today is the day I&#8217;ll be cutting my Christmas tree.\u00a0 I&#8217;m one of the lucky folks who has the ability to just walk out to the &#8220;back forty&#8221; and cut down a tree off of my own property.\u00a0 Just one of the benefits of having a farm, I guess!\u00a0 You can plan your own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2015\/11\/24\/christmas-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10,12,13,14,15,23,24,25,26,28],"tags":[68,89,120,131,134,152,164,244,248,255,260,284,292,294,308],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainmentfun","category-environmentgreen","category-financemonies","category-friends-andor-family","category-general-living","category-health","category-holiday-2","category-societycommunity","category-sports","category-tools-2","category-traveltransportation","category-weather-conditions","tag-celebrations","tag-convenience","tag-entertainment","tag-finance","tag-food","tag-green","tag-holiday","tag-relatives","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-shopping-2","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-travel","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}