{"id":154,"date":"2006-07-30T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-08-02T23:35:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T21:35:24","slug":"the-toad-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"the toad pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"may 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saunalahti.fi\/~oculex\/fatass_cheetah\/totally_toad\/totally_toad2.jpg\" alt=\"may 2005\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">linus, emil &amp; natan beside the toad pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">last spring, at my childhood home\/parents place, i <a title=\"the pond, summer 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saunalahti.fi\/oculex\/fatass_cheetah\/040705\/e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">dug up half a sand filled pond<\/a>, with the intention of eventually see some <a title=\"close enough: a frog.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saunalahti.fi\/oculex\/fatass_cheetah\/040705\/d.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">toads<\/a> fool around there. usually i see them crawl up from holes in the ground near the shore so i figured they&#8217;d be happy with a pond for themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the water made it impossible to dig deeper. but this dry summer i dug up the rest, reaching the bedrock.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"toad pond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/wp-content\/damm3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image153\" title=\"the toad pond\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/wp-content\/damm3.jpg\" alt=\"toad pond\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">the toad pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">unfortunately the water doesn&#8217;t like the pond as much as i do. i&#8217;m thinking of laying a special (<a title=\"one way to do it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aquainterior.se\/produkter.asp?nav=25&amp;parent=23\" target=\"_blank\">rubber<\/a>?) <a title=\"pond blankets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aquainterior.se\/produkter.asp?nav=23&amp;parent=0\" target=\"_blank\">blanket<\/a> to keep the water inside. it might look a little ugly before the vegetation over-runs the blanket, but at least it would serve its purpose.<br \/>\nso now i&#8217;m waiting for the blanket. and my sanity to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last spring, at my childhood home\/parents place, i dug up half a sand filled pond, with the intention of eventually see some toads fool around there. usually i see them crawl up from holes in the ground near the shore so i figured they&#8217;d be happy with a pond for themselves. the water made it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the toad pond<\/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":[15,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-feelgood","category-english","category-sma-saker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}