{"id":13137,"date":"2015-03-24T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2015-03-24T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:56:41","slug":"home-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13137","title":{"rendered":"Home improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7619\/16916298881_21a22022d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time over the past ten years cleaning out my attic. The plan has been to turn it into an office where I can put my vast quantity of files and books for easy retrieval. It was only last year that I finally wore down my better half who has always planned to throw everything of mine away. Well, this is the attic as it was just before the project began. Note, I still had a huge stack of stuff in the center that I had no room to take to the rest of the house. The contractors have had to shuffle it around to blow in insulation and hang sheetrock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7645\/16891396706_ba86bafb0b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The work is going very fast and I&#8217;m looking forward to having it ready to paint in a week or two. Organizing it will take a month or more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8755\/16729884650_8cec27c4c9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My blogging sometimes suffers from other preoccupations. Yesterday I couldn&#8217;t get past a growing pile in my claustrophobic current office. I did start the day by ironing eight or nine shirts while watching the fifth episode of HBO&#8217;s Newsroom. And when the contractors cleared out I spent two hours vacuuming the house. Its the least I can do since I&#8217;ve inflicted the mess on my reluctant spouse. In between I just couldn&#8217;t get worked up to post any blog material. As for the weekend&#8230;..that was reserved for my family. I took my grandson&#8217;s hiking in Oregon Creek. They both looked good in burrs but didn&#8217;t like having me remove them. I feel the same way about my school board.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up today at 2:30 with the free press on my mind. After a couple hours of tossing and turning I gave in and wrote a 1600 word post on the subject just to get it out of my head. I&#8217;m unresolved whether to edit it and stick it in the blog. I never did find the energy or time to edit the two posts I promised to improve upon from last week. I spent the time vacuuming instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time over the past ten years cleaning out my attic. The plan has been to turn it into an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13140,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions\/13140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}