{"id":22993,"date":"2015-10-08T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22993"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:34:57","slug":"big-scary-project-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/big-scary-project-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Scary Project begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/10\/06\/the-perils-and-rewards-of-home-improvement-part-umpty-umpity-yada-yada\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s started<\/a>. The Big Scary project.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m as nervous as the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. With spikes on their rockers. Poisoned spikes. With blasting caps in them. And alien plague germs. <i>Flesh-eating<\/i> alien plague germs.<\/p>\n<p>One good thing: worst comes first. The initial step (which I&#8217;m staying out of the way of) is to tear up part of the floor to gauge just how much rot, beetle damage, carpenter ant infestation, and other baddies might be under there. Once we see that, we know the baddest of the bad things that can happen on this project. I&#8217;ll be very, very glad to get that out of the way. Just <i>knowing<\/i> helps, even if the fixing turns out more complicated than hoped.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it&#8217;s a picnic. Well, most likely a picnic with ants, wasps, yellow-jackets, particularly aggressive blue jays, thunderstorms threatening, and a party of teenagers next door blasting rap music and drinking &#8217;til they puke. But by comparison, a picnic.<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s started. The Big Scary project. And I&#8217;m as nervous as the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. With spikes on their rockers. Poisoned spikes. With blasting caps in them. And alien plague germs. Flesh-eating alien plague germs. One good thing: worst comes first. The initial step (which I&#8217;m staying out of the way of) is to tear up part of the floor to gauge just how much rot, beetle damage, carpenter ant infestation, and other baddies might be under there. Once we see that, we know the baddest of the bad things that can happen&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/big-scary-project-begins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Scary Project begins<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}