{"id":34239,"date":"2018-05-29T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2018-05-29T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:51:14","slug":"yard-work-exercise-and-fitness-the-unintended-work-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-exercise-and-fitness-the-unintended-work-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work, exercise and fitness: the unintended work-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-tutoring: the tutor shares about yard chores.<\/h1>\n<p>Yesterday, I thought perhaps I wouldn&#8217;t get enough exercise. I thought wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For the seeds I found in our shelves, I decided to open up more garden space from a rectangle of the lawn. It was a spontaneous decision that meant using the shovel and pick-axe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/lawn_before_may28_2018.jpg\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turning over the sod took me about 45 minutes. A pick-axe is handy to have for such jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/lawn_after_may28_2018.jpg\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, my Dad had a roto-tiller that would&#8217;ve done the job in under 10 minutes, no sweat. We lived in a farming place, then. Now we don&#8217;t, so I till by hand:)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you updated on what I plant; I hope to start today.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring: the tutor shares about yard chores. Yesterday, I thought perhaps I wouldn&#8217;t get enough exercise. I thought wrong. For the seeds I found in our shelves, I decided to open up more garden space from a rectangle of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-exercise-and-fitness-the-unintended-work-out\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work, exercise and fitness: the unintended work-out<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,2913,1,1218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-and-fitness","category-gardening","category-uncategorized","category-yard-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34239"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34273,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions\/34273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}