{"id":1954,"date":"2012-07-01T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:57:22","slug":"corn-weeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/corn-weeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Weeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may have been born in California, but Griffin is definitely Minnesotan now. When I asked him about the cool lego train he built today, he explained that it was a &#8220;Corn Weeder.&#8221; Further discussion revealed that he was talking about a combine harvester. I didn&#8217;t even know what a combine <em>was<\/em> until a few years ago when Sarah explained that she drove one for a summer job long ago. Griffin is\u00a0<em>way<\/em> ahead of me!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1956\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1956 \" title=\"Corn Weeder\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?w=400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Corn Weeder\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?w=1184&amp;ssl=1 1184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120701_115922_010a.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corn Weeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1955\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Combine-Harvester_web.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1955 \" title=\"Combine Harvester\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Combine-Harvester_web.jpeg?w=400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Combine Harvester\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Combine-Harvester_web.jpeg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Combine-Harvester_web.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Combine Harvester, or, simply, &#8220;Combine&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may have been born in California, but Griffin is definitely Minnesotan now. When I asked him about the cool lego train he built today, he explained that it was a &#8220;Corn Weeder.&#8221; Further discussion revealed that he was talking about a combine harvester. I didn&#8217;t even know what a combine was until a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/corn-weeder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corn Weeder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,41],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-griffin","tag-griffin-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}