{"id":5763,"date":"2014-04-06T00:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2014-04-06T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:55:33","slug":"5763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/5763\/","title":{"rendered":"Things My Dad Says on the Occasion of Dismantling a Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of this fine, breezy springtime day helping my dad take down a tree that was overhanging the Bennion Compound&#8217;s property line. He&#8217;s become increasingly concerned over the past couple years about a branch coming down on the patio furniture at the rec center next door, and the potential damages he <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> want to be liable for.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, as he was trying to gingerly back his way up a near-vertical limb that he once would have just fearlessly Tarzaned, he stopped, wiped his brow, and said to me, &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s pretty silly for a 70-year-old man to be scrambling around a tree like this.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it is,&#8221; I agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Cramming his hat back on his snowy-white hair, he responded, &#8220;Good thing I&#8217;m not 70 yet, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not even the funniest thing he said to me today. That came first thing this morning, when he asked me for my help. &#8220;This should only take an hour,&#8221; he said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of this fine, breezy springtime day helping my dad take down a tree that was overhanging the Bennion Compound&#8217;s property line. He&#8217;s become increasingly concerned over the past couple years about a branch coming down on the patio furniture at the rec center next door, and the potential damages he doesn&#8217;t want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}