{"id":130829,"date":"2016-06-09T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/what-i-really-want-for-fathers-day.html"},"modified":"2016-06-09T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:36:07","slug":"what-i-really-want-for-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/what-i-really-want-for-fathers-day.html","title":{"rendered":"What I really want for Fathers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really, but since the subject came up &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> was reading through something online suggesting great Fathers Day gifts, and one of them was &#8230; a <i>lawn mower.<\/i> I opined that the only new lawn mower I really wanted was one that had a person attached to it to push it.<\/p>\n<p>And then that had me suddenly think, &quot;Why the hell are we futzing about with autonomous cars when we could have <i>autonomous lawn mowers?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Which, apparently actually exist (as the article suggests), sort of as Roombas for the Lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I have a grand-plus to drop on such a thing. Cheaper to hire a neighborhood kid to take care of it, I suppose. But, still, O Brave New World and all that.<\/p>\n<p>(And then <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> suggested a goat instead.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.intorobotics.com\/top-5-most-advanced-robotics-lawn-mowers\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HOa5XC_OU4F8Rkaan-ZyI9XKaGnoqFU2lHYOqLbXNgqxQq7jWfkTNCdkQkCCvzF_-5b7CMa3OesOa_UTPEJW3Ou_NX5mLNMFH0XFtyMIOh0nqm0elA-rteF-DRgnm-wrph6IjvdSm1bj_IAR_wJu9lM=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.intorobotics.com\/top-5-most-advanced-robotics-lawn-mowers\/'>Top 5 Most Advanced Robotic Lawn Mowers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIf you don&rsquo;t search, you won&rsquo;t find the best autonomous robotic lawn mower to maintain your lawn. Here are the best five robot lawn mower for your garden.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/B4sDtMEV52r'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really, but since the subject came up &#8230; +Kay Hill was reading through something online suggesting great Fathers Day gifts, and one of them was &#8230; a lawn mower. I opined that the only new lawn mower I really wanted was one that had a person attached to it to push it. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/what-i-really-want-for-fathers-day.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I really want for Fathers Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/26\/good_karma_clea.html","url_meta":{"origin":130829,"position":0},"title":"Good karma = clean living","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Oct-01 4:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I went out for a walk with Katherine this afternoon. 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