{"id":171,"date":"2011-09-15T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:29:34","slug":"new-jersey-grassland-eco-mow-zone-gemz-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/new-jersey-grassland-eco-mow-zone-gemz-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Grassland Eco Mow Zone (GEMZ) Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11481.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11481-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMAG1148\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11481-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11481-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 2005, New Jersey Department of Transportation began implementing a Grassland Eco Mow Zone (GEMZ) program to cut down on roadside mowing expenses.  As indicated on the sign, these mowing regimes not only save money, they do provide additional habitat for goldfinches and other grass seed eating birds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11491.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11491-612x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMAG1149\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11491-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11491-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG11491.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, New Jersey Department of Transportation began implementing a Grassland Eco Mow Zone (GEMZ) program to cut down on roadside mowing expenses. As indicated on the sign, these mowing regimes not only save money, they do provide additional habitat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/new-jersey-grassland-eco-mow-zone-gemz-program\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Wavc-2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}