{"id":26,"date":"2026-09-05T03:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:26:39","slug":"mow-your-damn-lawn-theo-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"MOW YOUR DAMN LAWN, THEO | Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<p><strong>BUCK &#8220;LINDY&#8221; LINDSTROM \u2014 CONTRIBUTING BROTHER<\/strong><br><em>&#8220;JUST SAYING WHAT EVERYONE&#8217;S THINKING&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE GRASS IS NOT YOUR ENEMY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Theo, buddy, it is a lawn. Mow it. A yard is not a graduate seminar. It is the thing between the porch and the street that gets tall when you ignore it. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEEP IT SHORT AND KEEP IT MOVING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like a little order. I like a mower that starts, a line you can see, and neighbors who do not need binoculars to find the sidewalk. Call that settler technology if you want. I call it Tuesday morning. You can plant flowers too, sure. Just do not make everybody else walk through your meadow to get the mail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE FAMILY RULE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deb made the shared blog because she got tired of us arguing over leftovers and wanted receipts. Fair enough. I am here to say the quiet part loud: the lawn looks better cut. Theo can have the footnotes. I have the extension cord. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUCK&#8217;S NOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Theo went to school for this. I went to work. Read both. Or don\u2019t. Im going fishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:2em;border-top:1px solid #ccc;padding-top:1em;\"><strong>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE (THEO ASHFORD-LINDSTR\u00f6M):<\/strong> My brother\u2019s framework here is incomplete, ahistorical, and, I think, emotionally loud. I am leaving it up because our mother has my childhood piano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCK &#8220;LINDY&#8221; LINDSTROM \u2014 CONTRIBUTING BROTHER&#8220;JUST SAYING WHAT EVERYONE&#8217;S THINKING&#8221; THE GRASS IS NOT YOUR ENEMY Theo, buddy, it is a lawn. Mow it. A yard is not a graduate seminar. It is the thing between the porch and the street that gets tall when you ignore it. Anyway. KEEP IT SHORT AND KEEP IT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-perspectives-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}