{"id":917,"date":"2010-01-02T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:04:40","slug":"my-mother-and-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"My Mother and Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today… my mother made an odd comment, “Oh Good, the raccoons dug up what I planted.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She turned to me and gleefully announced she’d found a perfect way to deal with her old prescriptions.\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t throw them out nor can you flush them down the toilet for environmental reasons and you shouldn’t keep them if they’ve expired in case kids get into them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So she decided she’d bury them in the backyard.\u00a0 Knowing the raccoons or squirrels would dig them up and eat them.\u00a0\u00a0 “Serves them right for digging in my yard,” she told me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Oh my God,” I looked at her laughing, “Are you hoping that it’ll be safe for the water table after it goes through the system of some poor animal!”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s my way of recycling,” she told me.\u00a0 “If they die, they die, but I got rid of my old pills safely.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Safely!”\u00a0 I giggled, “I can imagine the shock from P.E.T.A. if your idea catches on!”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today… my mother made an odd comment, “Oh Good, the raccoons dug up what I planted.” She turned to me and gleefully announced she’d found a perfect way to deal with her old prescriptions.\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t throw them out nor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}