{"id":2656,"date":"2014-06-27T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2014-06-28T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:17:28","slug":"ashes-to-ashes-pulp-to-pulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/06\/ashes-to-ashes-pulp-to-pulp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to ashes, pulp to pulp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2657\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-2657 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulp-to-pulp-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Willow\" width=\"771\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulp-to-pulp-1-of-1.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulp-to-pulp-1-of-1-336x213.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parks Department worker David Besel cleans up around the remains of a giant willow tree that was removed from Pioneer Park.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We wrote last month about the venerable old willow tree that was <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2014\/05\/venerable-pioneer-park-tree-taken-down\/\">taken down<\/a> in Pioneer Park.<\/p>\n<p>The massive, five-trunk tree had been a landmark for generations of Billings residents, but it had grown too rotten and unstable.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Friday we came upon this scene, this huge pile of pulp coughed up by a stump grinder.<\/p>\n<p>David Besel, a Parks Department employee doing cleanup around what remained of the tree, said taking out the stump was a big chore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to see if we can at least get it down to ground level,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote last month about the venerable old willow tree that was taken down in Pioneer Park. The massive, five-trunk tree had been a landmark for generations of Billings residents, but it had grown too rotten and unstable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[903,902,442],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billings","tag-david-besel","tag-parks-department","tag-pioneer-park","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}