{"id":14778,"date":"2026-06-23T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:50:09","slug":"mulch-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/mulch-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconvenient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve written this story a few times, a few different ways. This time, I told it live at Fresh Ground Stories in Seattle. 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