{"id":8,"date":"2006-09-14T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2006\/09\/road-side-trees\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T07:34:00","slug":"road-side-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2006\/09\/road-side-trees\/","title":{"rendered":">Road-side trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I was driving home and saw something strange a few days ago. Thinking about it &#8211; I have noticed it before, but this was a prime example. The picture below shows a tree that has got a foothold &#8211; it is growing.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/DSC00376-729328.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/DSC00376-723824.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Some of you might have noticed the closeness to the roadside. That is because the tree is a stick that has been placed there by the Swedish Road Administration &#8211; V\u00e4gverket. They have experimented with putting wooden sticks as markers to show where the road is during snow.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/DSC00375-775009.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/DSC00375-769081.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>There used to have orange plastic sticks that they had to collect in the spring &#8211; some where lost others broken. It was a big expense. The new sticks where ment to be cut when the roadsides where cleaned &#8211; but apparantly not.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that Sweden will go from the country of round-abouts to the country of road-side death by trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I was driving home and saw something strange a few days ago. Thinking about it &#8211; I have noticed it before, but this was a prime example. The picture below shows a tree that has got a foothold &#8211; it is growing. Some of you might have noticed the closeness to the roadside. That is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2006\/09\/road-side-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">>Road-side trees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}