{"id":164628,"date":"2025-08-21T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164628\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:02:10","slug":"father-and-son-transforming-lawns-uplifting-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164628\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son transforming lawns, uplifting community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas &#8212; At the start of sunrise, Daniel Hernandez and his father, Martin, start tackling an overgrown lawn. A service that takes them all day. A service that is also free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hernandez said they started helping neighbors in need three years ago after encountering a woman who needed to pay for her medication, instead of lawn care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It showed us that there are people out there that need help, and that&#8217;s what made us do what we do today,&#8221; Hernandez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Twice a week, the father-and-son duo drives around the city and looks for neglected yards. Hernandez started recording their work and posting the videos on YouTube. Their page has accumulated nearly 500,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Hernandez explains how they select the yards to cut, and also touches on their growing <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MDLawn-care\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube page<\/a> in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas &#8212; At the start of sunrise, Daniel Hernandez and his father, Martin, start tackling an overgrown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4834,3723,4345,10442,94890,94891,74784,358,3187,80883,3894],"class_list":{"0":"post-164628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-daniel","9":"tag-free","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-martin","12":"tag-md-lawn-care","13":"tag-mowing","14":"tag-overgrown","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-yard","18":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115068544188490290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}