{"id":1127,"date":"2009-01-27T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2009-01-27T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:26:09","slug":"front-walkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Front walkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-wet-walkway-1.JPG' title='a-wet-walkway-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-wet-walkway-1.JPG' alt='a-wet-walkway-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may not be the finest example of rock paving in the history of humanity, but at least it&#8217;s possible now to get into the house without walking across mud. This is local stone, which came from a small quarry about eight miles away, just north of Hanging Rock State Park. The stone is set in &#8220;screenings,&#8221; which is just granite sand, really.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-walkway-1.JPG' title='a-walkway-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-walkway-1.JPG' alt='a-walkway-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My helper<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-sandpile-1.JPG' title='a-sandpile-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-sandpile-1.JPG' alt='a-sandpile-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Granite sand, or &#8220;screenings&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-rockpile-1.JPG' title='a-rockpile-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/a-rockpile-1.JPG' alt='a-rockpile-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The local quarry delivered three tons of rock. This much is left after the front walkway was finished. The remainder of the rock will be used to pave a path to the basement door and to the rear deck.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the finest example of rock paving in the history of humanity, but at least it&#8217;s possible now to get into the house without walking across mud. This is local stone, which came from a small quarry about eight miles away, just north of Hanging Rock State Park. The stone is set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Front walkway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}