{"id":40297,"date":"2022-08-03T02:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40297"},"modified":"2022-08-03T02:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:49:49","slug":"hay-vs-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40297","title":{"rendered":"Hay vs Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-40298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hay_vs_Straw-200x300.png\" alt=\"Hay vs Straw\" width=\"581\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hay_vs_Straw-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hay_vs_Straw.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Straw is the stubble that is left after farmers harvest grains from plants like wheat, oats and rye. Farmers and ranchers use most straw for animal bedding. Square bales often sold in the fall for Halloween decorations are bales of straw. Straw can also be used as mulch for gardens and, in some cases, has even been used in walls of houses as insulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straw is the stubble that is left after farmers harvest grains from plants like wheat, oats and rye. Farmers and ranchers use most straw for animal bedding. Square bales often sold in the fall for Halloween decorations are bales of straw. Straw can also be used as mulch for gardens and, in some cases, has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hay vs Straw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40299,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297\/revisions\/40299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}