{"id":371,"date":"2020-10-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:33:09","slug":"35-seconds-of-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/2020\/10\/19\/35-seconds-of-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"35 seconds of your time could win you a trip on Lake Champlain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/457067995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-1024x572.png\" alt=\"Image of a lawnmower in front of a house with a waterbody in the background and a buffer planted with native vegetation between the yard and the water. The image serves as a link to a 35-second video about grass growth and best practices to help grass health and protect water quality. \" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-1536x857.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-2048x1143.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-648x362.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-4.51.50-PM-344x192.png 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, with just two more Mo Monday posts in 2020, I am excited to introduce a newly-released 35-second video that shares the key messages of  &#8212; and reasons for &#8212; the #RaiseTheBlade campaign. Click on the image above to watch the video or access it through the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lawntolake.org\/resources-2\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawn to Lake website<\/a>. (If you access it through the Lawn to Lake website, choose the &#8220;short version&#8221; of the two <em>Benefits of Long Grass<\/em> <em>Growth <\/em>videos available there.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We purposefully left one small glitch in the video to see if viewers can spot it. If you find it, email us by October 30, 2020 at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:seagrant@uvm.edu\" target=\"_blank\">seagrant@uvm.edu<\/a> with the subject line &#8220;Mo Monday.&#8221; We will randomly select one lucky winner from all email entries received to join a future <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/outreach\/public-boat-trips-lake-champlain-aboard-rv-melosira\" target=\"_blank\">public trip<\/a> on Lake Champlain led by Lake Champlain Sea Grant and UVM Extension. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of someone lowering a Secchi disc to assess water clarity off the stern of the R\/V Melosira, the University of Vermont's research vessel. \" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-648x486.jpg 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_3528-256x192.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner (age 18+) and one guest (minimum age 7) will be invited to come aboard the University of Vermont&#8217;s research vessel the <em>Melosira<\/em> in summer 2021 (pending a COVID-19 vaccine is available and our public trips are able to safely operate). Our public trips give participants an opportunity to learn about the history of the lake and its watershed (the area of land that drains to the lake), and to try their hand as limnologists by studying water quality in the lake.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, with just two more Mo Monday posts in 2020, I am excited to introduce a newly-released 35-second video that shares the key messages of &#8212; and reasons for &#8212; the #RaiseTheBlade campaign. Click on the image above to watch the video or access it through the Lawn to Lake website. (If you access it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/2020\/10\/19\/35-seconds-of-your-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">35 seconds of your time could win you a trip on Lake Champlain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[650145,647841,393756,650121,650141,650143,650131,650140,15888],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-raisetheblade-2","tag-lake-champlain-basin","tag-lake-champlain-sea-grant","tag-lawntolake-org","tag-mo-monday","tag-public-trips","tag-raise-the-blade","tag-raisetheblade","tag-uvm-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}