{"id":1447,"date":"2006-03-17T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/17\/progress\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:26","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/17\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Progress&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved to our rented house in California, one reason we liked it was this tree. It&#8217;s not in our yard, but it provided shade and beauty. It had been trimmed to avoid the utility wires in the past, but most of the tree was intact. The landlord, however, didn&#8217;t like the needles falling into the gutters. They own our house and the lot which has the tree. Rather than pay for gutter cleaning, they recently butchered the tree. We now have no shade in back yard (and never had any in the front yard). See the before and after below. It really makes me sad. If we ever buy a home here (and that&#8217;s a huge <em>if<\/em>, given the prices of real estate), we want a lot with trees. That&#8217;s a top priority. Until then, I&#8217;ll just be grateful we aren&#8217;t in Texas, where a house without shade becomes an oven.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/112946913\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/34\/112946913_f41089ce49.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"tree before\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/112946914\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/44\/112946914_7a2770d920.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"tree cut\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved to our rented house in California, one reason we liked it was this tree. It&#8217;s not in our yard, but it provided shade and beauty. It had been trimmed to avoid the utility wires in the past, but most of the tree was intact. The landlord, however, didn&#8217;t like the needles falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11416,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/11416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}