{"id":271,"date":"2004-11-28T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/11\/28\/ba4d2c3a-d5bc-4850-b99d-67f740db6ebe\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:33","slug":"ba4d2c3a-d5bc-4850-b99d-67f740db6ebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/ba4d2c3a-d5bc-4850-b99d-67f740db6ebe\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>A Rainy Saturday Night<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Howdy friends,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been housesitting at The 1912 House for the last day and a half while a certain someone is away and it started me thinking about a couple things. First, that the fireplace doesn&#8217;t put out very much heat. I always wondered how to make it work better but was never able to figure it out short of putting in some sort of ugly heat exchanger. Nah, I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>That led to something larger, what makes a house a home. I know that the topic has been thrashed to death elsewhere and by people far less ready for bed than I am right now, but maybe it&#8217;s just this: warmth. Not necessarily temperature, but the feeling you get when you enter a room, when you walk the hallways, when you sit back and imagine what good times you&#8217;ll have there in the future only to realize that you&#8217;re smiling. It&#8217;s not so warm in here this evening, not for me anyway. In a way, I think the dogs can feel it too. They&#8217;ve been clinging to me like cheap plastic wrap all day looking for something that just isn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>Good night. More tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rainy Saturday Night Howdy friends, I&#8217;ve been housesitting at The 1912 House for the last day and a half while a certain someone is away and it started me thinking about a couple things. First, that the fireplace doesn&#8217;t put out very much heat. I always wondered how to make it work better but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/ba4d2c3a-d5bc-4850-b99d-67f740db6ebe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}