{"id":405,"date":"2009-04-12T04:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/12\/culling-the-herd\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T04:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T08:02:05","slug":"culling-the-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/culling-the-herd\/","title":{"rendered":"Culling the Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve had it cleaning up hippo feces, so I&#8217;m cutting back on the sheer volume of hippos around here.&nbsp; Honestly, I had over 130 of the lovely beasts in my little 2-bedroom apartment.&nbsp; I just got done posting 41 of them on eBay (40 postings, two of them come as a pair), and have a bag of about 10 more ready to go to Goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>I had tried to cut back on my books&#8230;&nbsp; I posted a lot of them on Half.ebay.com and a few on Amazon, but not that many sold.&nbsp; It was good to get a little extra money from those that did&#8230; My friend Sherry said she&#8217;d try to come over this weekend and make me an offer on what&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p>Developing non-attachment is never easy.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s harder when you try to find new homes for your stuff, and few respond.<\/p>\n<p>My music project, now dubbed Project Moss, is underway.&nbsp; I have 9 new recordings, and the experience from doing those is allowing me to cut out some earlier recorded performances (late 2006) from a series of long, continuous files, giving me 7 more songs.&nbsp; Only a few friends have suggested themselves as repositories for the outcome of this project so far, but then I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll be done.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve had it cleaning up hippo feces, so I&#8217;m cutting back on the sheer volume of hippos around here.&nbsp; Honestly, I had over 130 of the lovely beasts in my little 2-bedroom apartment.&nbsp; I just got done posting 41 of them on eBay (40 postings, two of them come as a pair), and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}