{"id":11071,"date":"2020-06-17T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:32:33","slug":"vdot-pruning-master-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/vdot-pruning-master-class\/","title":{"rendered":"VDOT pruning master class"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11072\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200604-VDOT-pruned-juniperus-v.jpg\" alt=\"pruned lateral branches\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200604-VDOT-pruned-juniperus-v.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200604-VDOT-pruned-juniperus-v-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200604-VDOT-pruned-juniperus-v-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200604-VDOT-pruned-juniperus-v-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One hears varying things about the Virginia Department of Transportation and trees. I have seen them prune trees with a bush-hog, a rotary mower on a hydraulic arm, whacking limbs off a tree, then moving on. I have heard VDOT credited with creating an acronym for trees, &#8220;FHO&#8221; (fixed hazardous objects). I have seen them do terminal pruning of trees, cut the trees at ground level that communities have loved and cared for.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11073\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200530-RT-20-median.jpg\" alt=\"Route 20 Monticello Gateway\" width=\"760\" height=\"508\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200530-RT-20-median.jpg 760w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200530-RT-20-median-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recently, I have heard VDOT praise the trees between Charlottesville and Albemarle in the median of Route 20. I like VDOT when they are in praise mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"VDOT pruning master class","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,33,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-road","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11076,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}