{"id":2175,"date":"2006-02-10T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2006-02-10T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T10:04:24","slug":"the_economics_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Mulch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2006\/02\/the_economics_o.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>ST. FRANCIS: You&#8217;d better sit down, Lord. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovaloffice.org\/s4fun3.htm\">Suburbanites have drawn a new circle<\/a>, As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.<\/p>\n<p>GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the soil moist and loose?<\/p>\n<p>ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>ST. FRANCIS They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen: ST. FRANCIS: You&#8217;d better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle, As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away. GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,26,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}