{"id":412,"date":"2005-08-20T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=412"},"modified":"2005-08-20T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T14:12:03","slug":"clean-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Clean House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had guests last night, including one of the top Microsoft architect\/developers in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samgentile.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Gentile<\/a>, who endured 3 hours of traffic to present to our local User Group.<br \/>\nSam&#8217;s visit provided the incentive needed to get my house in order, and an excuse to buy about $18 worth of improvements for my deck, which had been repaired and repainted earlier this summer by my incredible friends across the street.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs I sit here on Saturday morning, the thought occurs that I do live in a cute little house, which definitely has a cottage flavor: old but not antique furniture, the (new) windchime, a handmade afghan on the guestroom bed, a beautiful piece of stained glass received in trade for work on a local artist&#8217;s website, the summery French provincial-style white and blue tablecloth, the flower boxes on the deck.<br \/>\nA little paint, wainscot and laminate flooring would polish the place off, but nonetheless, I was proud of my little house last night, and grateful that I could offer hospitality here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had guests last night, including one of the top Microsoft architect\/developers in the US, Sam Gentile, who endured 3 hours of traffic to present to our local User Group. Sam&#8217;s visit provided the incentive needed to get my house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}