{"id":17949,"date":"2025-11-17T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17949"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:00:12","slug":"all-things-come-to-those-who-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17949","title":{"rendered":"All things come to those who wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/17\/all-things-come-to-those-who-wait\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/17\/all-things-come-to-those-who-wait\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Practicing the virtues of benign neglect. Now it transpires that we should leave the leaves (English is a wondrous language!) on the lawn. Beneficial to over-wintering bugs, apparently. Which is fortuitous because this Head Groundskeeper had no intention of turning over a new leaf this fall. We\u2019ll deal with next Spring when it gets here, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/17\/all-things-come-to-those-who-wait\/ Practicing the virtues of benign neglect. Now it transpires&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17950,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions\/17950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}