{"id":665,"date":"2012-01-29T03:12:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T03:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/?p=665"},"modified":"2012-01-29T03:12:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T03:12:01","slug":"are-you-an-arborist-or-a-tree-lopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2012\/01\/are-you-an-arborist-or-a-tree-lopper\/","title":{"rendered":"are you an arborist or a tree-lopper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you an arborist or a tree lopper?\u00a0 Are you a prancing, exfoliated, mocha-sipping, weight-reducing lover of trees with a selection of technical trousers, or a hairy-armed, knuckle-dragging throwback with balls the size of watermelons who lives in the hills and can barely write his own name?\u00a0 If you\u2019re not sure, why not take the handy quiz below and find out what part of the Yellow Pages you should be advertising in…<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Please click on the image above to download a PDF version of the quiz, originally published in the Dec\/Jan issue of Australian Arbor-Age.\u00a0 Angus McMahon contributed several of the questions, the remainder of which (along with the drawings) were prepared by Joe Harris.\u00a0 As should be obvious, the quiz is intended to be read as a bit of fun rather than a dig at anyone, no matter what they call themselves.<\/p>\n

Perhaps these two (vaguely) pertinant quotes will add a bit of (horti-)cultural precedent to the debate. “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them” <\/em>(Matt 7:20), and “What’s in a name?\u00a0That which we call a rose\u00a0by any other name would smell as\u00a0sweet” <\/em>(Romeo and Juliet II, ii, 1-2) both point out that what matters is the work you do, and how you do it, not what you call yourself.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This may be the first time anyone has compared a lopper to a sweet-smelling\u00a0rose,\u00a0then judged him by his fruit… and lived to tell the tale…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you an arborist or a tree lopper?\u00a0 Are you a prancing, exfoliated, mocha-sipping, weight-reducing lover of trees with a selection of technical trousers, or a hairy-armed, knuckle-dragging throwback with balls the size of watermelons who lives in the hills … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,67,66,65],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arborist","tag-article","tag-technical-trousers","tag-tree-lopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}