{"id":72344,"date":"2011-11-24T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72344\/weed\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:53","slug":"weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72344\/weed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iweed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72345\" title=\"Iweed\" src=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iweed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iweed.jpg 400w, https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iweed-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was once again toiling for my sister&#8230;that&#8217;s my brother in law&#8217;s wife&#8230;The Doktor&#8230;helping prune her &#8220;Garden&#8221; into shape for the coming summer. And once again I didn&#8217;t know an African Buttercup Daisy Bottom from an Australian Shrinking Violet Shade Clown&#8230;what a surprise&#8230;when I again asked her&#8230;&#8221;Why don&#8217;t you just plant and grow weeds? They seem to do just fine without any help and they&#8217;re all green&#8230;why not?&#8221;. To this she replied&#8230;and will I ever learn not to ask questions&#8230;she replied&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;Do you know what a weed is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;Yeah&#8230;all that crap around your African Buttercup Daisy Bottoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;No&#8230;that particular plant has a name and it&#8217;s not weed&#8230;nor crap!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Never call a plant&#8230;&#8221;Crap&#8221;&#8230;to a plant lover.)<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;Then why in the hell am I pulling them out if they&#8217;re not weeds?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;Do you know what the definition of a weed is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;(fuck)&#8230;No&#8230;what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;A weed is defined as a plant that&#8217;s growing where it&#8217;s not supposed to grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;Well&#8230;this is Nature&#8217;s Earth&#8230;therefor&#8230;if a plant is growing in Nature then it&#8217;s supposed to&#8230;so&#8230;no plant can be a weed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;No&#8230;that&#8217;s ~Wild Nature~&#8230;what I have here is ~Controlled Nature~&#8230;I decide what plants should grow here and where&#8230;so therefor&#8230;there are weeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;Oh&#8230;*ponders*&#8230;I think I understand&#8230;so&#8230;Liberals are weeds growing in the Flowerbed of Freedom&#8230;but in&#8230;say&#8230;Russia&#8230;or&#8230;China&#8230;they wouldn&#8217;t be weeds?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;(Massive Lib)&#8230;&#8221;NO! You don&#8217;t want to start down this path Tu!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;So&#8230;you are kind of saying that Freedom&#8230;like Nature&#8230;can be ~Wild~&#8230;or&#8230;Freedom can be ~Controlled~?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;TU! A BETTER ANaLoGY would BE&#8230;one could have the most beautiful rare rosebush in the whole world&#8230;but&#8230;if it was growing in the middle of a corn field&#8230;it would be a weed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;*ponders*&#8230;So&#8230;you are saying I&#8217;m a weed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her&#8230;&#8221;YEAH TU&#8230;you&#8217;re a weed alright!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weed is defined as a plant that&#8217;s growing where it&#8217;s not supposed to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,14,6,17,10,837,2,11,1428,840,587,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-environment","category-family","category-friendburst","category-home","category-life","category-nature-2","category-other","category-people","category-politics-2","category-religion-2","category-science","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116568,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344\/revisions\/116568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}