{"id":11448,"date":"2016-02-15T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11448"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:56:12","slug":"just-like-the-lorax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11448","title":{"rendered":"Just Like &#8220;The Lorax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving to CT a few months ago, I was surprised to see piles of trees along the side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11460\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"trees1\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees1-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees1.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was awed by the scope of the destruction. It went on and on. And then, finally, the instrument of destruction was revealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11459\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees2-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"trees2\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees2-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trees2.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had never seen anything like it before, except those tree-chopping machines that take down the beautiful Truffula trees in &#8220;The Lorax.&#8221; I had always thought that machines like that were just make-believe. I was wrong, and this machine was so much more terrifying, because it was real!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving to CT a few months ago, I was surprised to see piles of trees along the side of the highway. I was awed by the scope of the destruction. It went on and on. And then, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[187,124,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11448"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11753,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448\/revisions\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}