{"id":690,"date":"2011-04-03T23:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2011-04-03T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T06:21:33","slug":"this-stinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/this-stinks\/","title":{"rendered":"This Stinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half the houses in my neighborhood are empty. Well, it&#8217;s actually more like 20%, but it <em>seems<\/em> like half. So what could make owning a home in Yucca Valley even less appealing?<\/p>\n<p>A zombie apocalypse? No, that&#8217;s so 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Roving packs of bloodthirsty hyenas? Nah!<\/p>\n<p>I know! How about a nice dose of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xylella_fastidiosa\">Xylella fastidiosa<\/a><\/cite>? That&#8217;s the ticket!<\/p>\n<p>You start with oleander shrubbery that looks like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5587579231\/\" title=\"Oleanders - Healthy by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5068\/5587579231_01acd9b16b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oleanders - Healthy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you give them the infection. That will give you bushes that look like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5587579235\/\" title=\"Oleanders - Sickly by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5144\/5587579235_c7a8d7d971_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oleanders - Sickly\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now repeat about 30 or 40 times, all around your backyard:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5587579241\/\" title=\"Oleanders - Looking Bad by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5067\/5587579241_366d876026_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oleanders - Looking Bad\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half the houses in my neighborhood are empty. Well, it&#8217;s actually more like 20%, but it seems like half. So what could make owning a home in Yucca Valley even less appealing? A zombie apocalypse? No, that&#8217;s so 2010. Roving packs of bloodthirsty hyenas? Nah! I know! How about a nice dose of Xylella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[109,297,294,284,296,295],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-economy-2","tag-gardening","tag-homeowner","tag-housing","tag-leaf-scorch","tag-oleanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-b8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}