{"id":1739,"date":"2011-06-27T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2011-06-27T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:57:08","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1740\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/the-farmer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1740\" title=\"Mowing Fields with the Tractor and Finsih Mower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/the-farmer.png\" alt=\"Mowing Fields with the Tractor and Finsih Mower\" width=\"540\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mowing Fields with the Tractor and Finish Mower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, Rob gave me a 10 minute lesson in how the tractor works. He showed me where the brakes and clutch were, and how to shift\u00a0this beast. As soon as I hoped up onto the seat it was time to start this mowing machine and see what it would be like to use the mower. Since I was already in the seat, and already had the mower spinning, I decided it was as good a time as any to mow the whole field, so I did.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1741\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/mowing-fields.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1741\" title=\"Mowing Fields\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/mowing-fields.png\" alt=\"Mowing Fields\" width=\"540\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mowing Fields<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While mowing doesn&#8217;t seem like a very farmer thing to do, it is very important so the fields stay in shape. If they are not mowed every other year or so, little trees will soon turn a good field into a\u00a0good forest. Converting the forest back into a field is no easy task, so mowing is more about prevention that production. I may wish to grow corn in this field soon, so I&#8217;ll need to keep it all grass for now.<\/p>\n<p>So, It&#8217;s official, rather then a guy with a really big garden, this tractor makes me a full blown farmer&#8230;. well almost, maybe when I get a corn planter it will be official. I say close enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Rob gave me a 10 minute lesson in how the tractor works. He showed me where the brakes and clutch were, and how to shift\u00a0this beast. As soon as I hoped up onto the seat it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1739\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}