{"id":178,"date":"2008-04-14T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2008\/04\/14\/the-house-that-jack-built\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:50:35","slug":"the-house-that-jack-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2008\/04\/14\/the-house-that-jack-built\/","title":{"rendered":"The House that Jack Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1822\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ryanhouse01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1822\" title=\"The House in Ryan, which I think is a lovely place. I understand why Abby is upset that it is selling - it is one of those houses that seems to tell you stories when you are merely walking its halls.\" src=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ryanhouse01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The House in Ryan, which I think is a lovely place. I understand why Abby is upset that it is selling - it is one of those houses that seems to tell you stories when you are merely walking its halls.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ryanhouse01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ryanhouse01.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The House in Ryan, which I think is a lovely place. I understand why Abby is upset that it is selling &#8211; it is one of those houses that seems to tell you stories when you are merely walking its halls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the process of cleaning the old house in Ryan, then hauling home some of the relics, Abby and I are now suffering from congestion in our throats and sinuses. Initially I was attributing it to mowing after we got home yesterday, since I drove the riding mower through some areas of last year&#8217;s poison ivy. But since Abby didn&#8217;t mow, and is also congested, we think it might be a reaction to dust and mold stirred up from the old house.<\/p>\n<p>Sidebar: while I was mowing I spotted two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotweiller\">Rottweilers<\/a> who were looking at our goats not as charming playthings, but as tender and delicious delicacies. I shouted at them and got them to leave, but they returned. I asked Abby what to do, so she yelled at them, and they did not return. Moral: Abby is all-powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of cleaning the old house in Ryan, then hauling home some of the relics, Abby and I are now suffering from congestion in our throats and sinuses. Initially I was attributing it to mowing after we got home yesterday, since I drove the riding mower through some areas of last year&#8217;s poison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-abby-and-richard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26898,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/26898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}