{"id":32599,"date":"2026-06-11T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=32599"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:40:47","slug":"before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"We said goodbye to our trees."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-864x1536.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011851-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-864x1536.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011891-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We decided it was time to take out the last two big Cottonwood trees from our backyard. It wasn&#8217;t easy to say goodbye to their rushing leaves, shade, and the privacy they offered, but now we have a mountain view. The yard feels bigger, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided it was time to take out the last two big Cottonwood trees from our backyard. It wasn&#8217;t easy to say goodbye to their rushing leaves, shade, and the privacy they offered, but now we have a mountain view. The yard feels bigger, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32612,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions\/32612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}