{"id":11194,"date":"2010-12-18T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2010-12-18T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T18:52:10","slug":"wrapping-rainwater-with-a-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=11194","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Rainwater With A Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>There&#8217;s not much of a system in place here yet to collect the annual average of 15 inches of rainfall that arrives fall\/winter in Southern California.<br \/>\nThis light but steady drizzle over the past couple days has already brimmed one 33-gallon trash barrel, but the other trash cans are too beat up to hold water.<br \/>\nAll I want for Christmas is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmetalcisterns.net\/Pages\/pricing.html\">500-gallon cistern<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Copper firepot\/dipping basin\/feline watering hole, dyckias, and furcraea.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/1218morn2020.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The standard formula reveals what astonishing amounts of rainwater can be collected by homeowners.<br \/>\nAn easy trick to remember is to divide the square footage of your roof by 2.  That&#8217;s roughly the amount of rainwater that can be collected from one inch of rainfall.<br \/>\n(1 inch of rain on a 1,000 square feet (93 m2) roof yields 623 gallons of water)<\/p>\n<p>(Chondropetalum tectorum&#8217;s elegant rainwater collection system)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/1218morn008.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not much of a system in place here yet to collect the annual average of 15 inches of rainfall that arrives fall\/winter in Southern California. This light but steady drizzle over the past couple days has already brimmed one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=11194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[445],"tags":[446,442,443,444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-2Uy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}