{"id":1183,"date":"2009-02-19T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-02-19T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:45:04","slug":"house-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"House update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-1.JPG' title='c-update-2009-02-19-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-1.JPG' alt='c-update-2009-02-19-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fireplace was lit up today. Home is where the fireplace is. It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since I&#8217;ve had a fireplace, so I find that very exciting, even though it burns gas and not wood. To not have a wood fireplace was a pretty easy decision, though. For one, I could not afford a brick chimney over 30 feet tall. For two, I&#8217;m getting too old to mess with firewood. And for three, I wanted a reasonably competent and reliable heat source in case of power failures. This fireplace is vented to the outside. That made it a bit more expensive and pesky to install, but there are advantages to the vented fireplaces, not the least of which is that it puts out a bigger, more wood-like flame. I&#8217;m going to love being able to flip a switch and have a fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-2.JPG' title='c-update-2009-02-19-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-2.JPG' alt='c-update-2009-02-19-2.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ductwork for the heating and air conditioning system is almost done.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-3.JPG' title='c-update-2009-02-19-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c-update-2009-02-19-3.JPG' alt='c-update-2009-02-19-3.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plumbing and electrical work also is almost done. If there are no hitches, I may even be able to start the insulation work in a week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fireplace was lit up today. Home is where the fireplace is. It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since I&#8217;ve had a fireplace, so I find that very exciting, even though it burns gas and not wood. To not have a wood fireplace was a pretty easy decision, though. For one, I could not afford a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House update&#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-1183","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\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}