{"id":5357,"date":"2018-03-08T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:28:11","slug":"cognitive-reframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/cognitive-reframe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Reframe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went out to do some weeding in a thicket of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/learning\/colleges\/college-of-sciences\/clinics-and-services\/weeds-database\/black-nightshade.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black nightshade<\/a> that has sprung up down by the barn.\u00a0There I was, toiling away pulling out plant after plant, when it suddenly occurred to me that instead of weeding I could call this harvesting. Funny how just that one word change transformed my feelings about the task.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5361\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds1.jpg\" alt=\"Black NIghtshade\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodness that&#8217;s a sh**load of weeds.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5359\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds3.jpg\" alt=\"Black nightshade in wheelbarrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">But wait, I&#8217;m not weeding, I&#8217;m harvesting.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5358\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds4.jpg\" alt=\"Black nightshade in compost bin\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds4.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weeds4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What a lov-er-ly lot of biomass for my compost heap.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thank goodness the farmlet has oodles more weedy biomass for me to harvest? How very fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>How do you approach weeding? With loathing or joy? Or possibly just a few sharp implements.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went out to do some weeding in a thicket of black nightshade that has sprung up down by the barn.\u00a0There I was, toiling away pulling out plant after plant, when it suddenly occurred to me that instead of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/cognitive-reframe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}