{"id":7599,"date":"2013-05-03T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2013-05-01T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:24:09","slug":"this-means-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7599","title":{"rendered":"SITY: This Means War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This plant, whatever it is, spreads fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7600\" alt=\"War 1\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-1.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not terribly ugly. I actually like its purplish foliage and bright blue flowers. But it&#8217;s taking over my violets&#8217; turf. That&#8217;s not acceptable. And it spreads by runner, making it even more aggressive than the violet. Look at this piece I pulled out of the ground. It must be over two feet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7601\" alt=\"War 2\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/War-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s somewhat ridiculous to selectively weed an entire lawn, but I think I can eventually rid the yard of this nemesis if I pull some out every day. My husband says it&#8217;s futile. He wants to poison the lawn, but that will kill my violets, too. And just because I refuse to poison the lawn does not mean that I don&#8217;t have any say in what grows there. I do!<\/p>\n<p>So beware, plant! This means war!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plant, whatever it is, spreads fast. It&#8217;s not terribly ugly. I actually like its purplish foliage and bright blue flowers. But it&#8217;s taking over my violets&#8217; turf. That&#8217;s not acceptable. And it spreads by runner, making it even more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7599\">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":[1],"tags":[107,124,277,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599"}],"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=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7636,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}