{"id":8942,"date":"2013-01-10T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:25:20","slug":"fire-bowls-bonfires-and-garden-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/fire-bowls-bonfires-and-garden-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire bowls, bonfires, garden waste and health hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GgR58Jx5GA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nGarden bonfires are one of the pleasures of country life and, if the fire is in a bowl or pit, you can use garden waste instead of barbecue fuels.  In towns, outdoor fires can be a nuisance but the advice given by municipal authorities is variable. Some say little more than &#8216;be considerate and don&#8217;t inhale the smoke&#8217;. Others, of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milton-keynes.gov.uk\/environmental-health\/displayarticle.asp?id=29284\">Milton Keynes is a notable example<\/a>, appear to have been written by people suffering from severe asmatha, tinged with pyrophobia and boosted by bossiness. They have my sympathy &#8211; but not my support. Those who live in cold climates love fire.<br \/>\nBut if I lived in Australia I would probably be violently opposed to garden fires.  To look at the tourist photos, you would think all of Australia was always warm and always sunny. Yet I heard that Sydney had a temperature of 42\u00b0C two days ago and 21\u00b0C one day ago. Every aspect of garden design and management needs to be context-sensitive, more so than architecture or interior design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden bonfires are one of the pleasures of country life and, if the fire is in a bowl or pit, you can use garden waste instead of barbecue fuels. In towns, outdoor fires can be a nuisance but the advice given by municipal authorities is variable. Some say little more than &#8216;be considerate and don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}