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I read that putting copper in your bird bath can help prevent algae.\u00a0 Doug had a small piece of copper pipe, so we dropped it in, and it seemed to work pretty well.\u00a0 Until a raccoon or a crow or something stole it.\u00a0 So I went to the bank and asked them to dig up some pre-1982 pennies for me, and came back an hour later to see what they got.\u00a0 \u00a0Hopefully, flat coins are a little harder to pick up than a round pipe.<\/p>\n

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I read that putting copper in your bird bath can help prevent algae.\u00a0 Doug had a small piece of copper pipe, so we dropped it in, and it seemed to work pretty well.\u00a0 Until a raccoon or a crow or something stole it.\u00a0 So I went to the bank and asked them to dig up … Continue reading copper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}