{"id":122,"date":"2015-02-28T06:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-02-28T06:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:14:57","slug":"how-green-is-your-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"How green is your grass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People will tell you that the grass isn&#8217;t always greener on the other side. Okay, sure. That&#8217;s about as helpful as those highway signs that say &#8216;Bridge may be icy&#8217;. Sure, it might be. It might be a lot of things. \u00a0It might be on fire, underwater or covered in angry lemmings. Either way, the sign isn&#8217;t going to make you a safer driver&#8230;but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, maybe the grass is greener on the other side and maybe it isn&#8217;t, but that&#8217;s not the important question. The important question is why your grass isn&#8217;t green enough in the first place, and nine times out of ten, the answer is pretty simple: you&#8217;ve done a less than adequate job taking care of your lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, that&#8217;s a problem you can&#8217;t outrun and getting to the other side won&#8217;t help a bit. All that will get you is a different lawn to not take care of. The point, if it isn&#8217;t already clear, is this: the surest way to greener grass isn&#8217;t jumping the fence, it&#8217;s picking up the hose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People will tell you that the grass isn&#8217;t always greener on the other side. Okay, sure. That&#8217;s about as helpful as those highway signs that say &#8216;Bridge may be icy&#8217;. Sure, it might be. It might be a lot of things. \u00a0It might be on fire, underwater or covered in angry lemmings. Either way, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}