{"id":2994,"date":"2010-06-29T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T04:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2010-06-29T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T04:21:51","slug":"tax-deadline-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/29\/tax-deadline-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax deadline coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put it off, but it&#8217;s due tomorrow (or Friday, after the Canada Day holiday on Thursday): property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things I&#8217;m happy to get for my taxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoria.ca\/dogs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" title=\"City of Victoria dogs off-leash map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.victoria.ca\/dogs\/graphics\/map080822.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoriadogs.com\/?p=76\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" title=\"Spear grass (at least one variety thereof...)\" src=\"http:\/\/victoriadogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/grass-fox-yel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>But the state of those off-leash parks, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogabouttown.ca\/blog\/52\/why-spear-grass-can-be-life-threatening-to-your-dog\/\">spear-grass<\/a> (&#8220;the generic term used for any wild grass that has barbed seeds&#8221;)  growing rampant and left flourishing, leaves me frustrated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what can be done about it, though, short of using napalm or flame-throwers. If it&#8217;s mowed, but the seed residue is left on the ground (versus being bagged up as it&#8217;s mowed, and then taken away to be burned), it just blows around everywhere &#8211; and crops up in new places the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put it off, but it&#8217;s due tomorrow (or Friday, after the Canada Day holiday on Thursday): property taxes. There are some things I&#8217;m happy to get for my taxes. But the state of those off-leash parks, with spear-grass (&#8220;the generic term used for any wild grass that has barbed seeds&#8221;) growing rampant and left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2199,1418],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes","category-victoria","tag-dogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}