{"id":37889,"date":"2018-07-26T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37889"},"modified":"2018-07-26T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T02:21:07","slug":"maybe-that-side-has-some-potential-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/maybe-that-side-has-some-potential-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe that side has some potential after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/the-unregarded-east-side\/\" target=\"_blank\">ugly and unregarded east side<\/a> of Ye Olde Wreck has some potential after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins_SMALL_072518.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wandering Monk isn&#8217;t really headless. He&#8217;s just the one bad angle in an otherwise happy shot.<\/p>\n<p>I told him I had no great expectations for the east wall renovation &#8212; that I merely wanted to get it done, check it off the list, and move on to more gratifying work. He told me it would be &#8220;beeeautiful&#8221; when we finished. Hyperbole, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>But you know, it&#8217;s getting there. Skirting, belly band &#8212; even seemingly small things like replacing broken shingles or covering beat-up flashing with cedar trim are making a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-02_SMALL_072518.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But clearly the Monk has been hanging out with me too long. I merely raised the camera in his direction and he (in his own words) &#8220;does a Claire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EastSide_FinalWork_PaintingBegins-T-Does-a-Claire_SMALL_072518.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the ugly and unregarded east side of Ye Olde Wreck has some potential after all. The Wandering Monk isn&#8217;t really headless. He&#8217;s just the one bad angle in an otherwise happy shot. I told him I had no great expectations for the east wall renovation &#8212; that I merely wanted to get it done, check it off the list, and move on to more gratifying work. He told me it would be &#8220;beeeautiful&#8221; when we finished. Hyperbole, I thought. But you know, it&#8217;s getting there. Skirting, belly band &#8212; even seemingly small things like replacing broken shingles or covering&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/maybe-that-side-has-some-potential-after-all\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe that side has some potential after all<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37889","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\/37889","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=37889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37902,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions\/37902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}