{"id":12202,"date":"2012-03-28T19:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:33:24","slug":"brush-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/28\/brush-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of days there has been a small army of city workers and contractors clearing brush as a fire break from around the canyon down the street from our house. I do believe they may have been all Hispanic for some odd reason. My mother said they all gather in a circle first thing in the morning and do exercises. Some apparently do them more easily than others.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually they are also going to be clearing a fire break along the canyon behind our backyard. Good thing, too. 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I do believe they may have been all Hispanic for some odd reason. My mother said they all gather in a circle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/28\/brush-management\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7429,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/07\/01\/hot-car\/","url_meta":{"origin":12202,"position":0},"title":"Hot Car","date":"July 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Had ourselves a car fire on the freeway interchange in the canyon below our house. Fire department\u00a0and police\u00a0put it out and towed it very quickly and had the traffic backup moving in about twenty minutes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Car-Fire01-07-01-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14586,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/30\/freeway-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":12202,"position":1},"title":"Freeway Fire","date":"July 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Started smelling smoke through my open window while I was working at my computer in the afternoon. It was far too early for the occasional evening smoke I catch a whiff of whenever a neighbor uses their fireplace on cooler nights. 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