{"id":56874,"date":"2015-12-31T07:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56874"},"modified":"2015-12-31T07:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:12:55","slug":"in-the-holiday-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56874","title":{"rendered":"In The Holiday Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, or someone claiming to be Joe Doakes (you&#8217;ll see what I mean) emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I called the City of St. Paul\u2019s Forestry department to ask them to look at my boulevard tree to see it if needed trimming.<\/p>\n<p>They came promptly, trimmed the branches overhanging my house, raked up the twigs and hauled the mess away. \u00a0I admit it: I was pleasantly surprised so I wrote to thank them and copied my city council rep.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an awful lot the City does wrong, but when they do something right, they deserve the credit.\u00a0 Good job, guys.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s little opportunity for graft, and no political empires to be built, in city forestry &#8211; so I suspect that the city&#8217;s foresters are top-notch employees who deserve a hearty &#8220;kudos&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, or someone claiming to be Joe Doakes (you&#8217;ll see what I mean) emails: I called the City of St. Paul\u2019s Forestry department to ask them to look at my boulevard tree to see it if needed trimming. They came promptly, trimmed the branches overhanging my house, raked up the twigs and hauled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56875,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56874\/revisions\/56875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}