{"id":18257,"date":"2022-10-04T22:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18257"},"modified":"2022-10-04T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:51:25","slug":"causing-a-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18257","title":{"rendered":"Causing a Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fence.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18256\" \/>We have been meaning to get our half-dead overgrown hedge which brings down the tone of the area removed for ages, even though it is a godsend to wildlife, but we just don&#8217;t have the time, tools, skills, energy or chops to look after it. So when a man came to our door offering to change it for a fence we were receptive. Asked him to leave his business card and later found a leaflet from a well-regarded company in the letterbox so told him to go ahead, having also been assured he had a chipper and digger. They were a different company with no machinery except a chainsaw. They ended up hauling away seven tons of trees by hand and we ended up paying three times the estimate. So it goes. Still we do have a fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been meaning to get our half-dead overgrown hedge which brings down the tone of the area removed for ages, even though it is a godsend to wildlife, but we just don&#8217;t have the time, tools, skills, energy or chops to look after it. So when a man came to our door offering to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Causing a Fence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18259,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions\/18259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}