{"id":51,"date":"2003-08-07T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-07T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T04:36:00","slug":"34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/34","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I wish I was, h-o-o-o-o-omeward bound&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Lady and I submitted a bid on a house, which was consequently accepted.  It happened that fast \u2014 about 2 hours.  The house never even hit the open market, and had it, it would have lasted as long as a Black Angus steer in a piranha stream.  Next come the inspections to make sure it&#8217;s not a clunker.  Nonexistent deity, help me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little smaller than we would have liked, but it&#8217;s perfect for our budget.  The neighborhood is great, the house is immaculate \u2014 with the exception of some modernization \u2014 and the back yard &#038; patio are made for entertaining and partying.  All of our shit will fit in there comfortably, and it&#8217;ll be nice to get it all out of storage.<\/p>\n<p>Crap, I hope we get this house.  After months of searching, we&#8217;ve finally found a bona-fide winner.  Both Lady and I got fantastic vibes from the second we walked in the door.  It&#8217;s a warm and welcome house with New Orleans charm and has seen many years of tender loving care by the folks we&#8217;re buying it from, who are the original owners, by the by.  This house has seen a lot of good times, and it&#8217;s going to see a heap more if we can get in there.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll even have our own Tiki god to watch over us, if they leave him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted.  My brain is stew, and the stress is only beginning.  I&#8217;m going to pass out for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted. Tonight, Lady and I submitted a bid on a house, which was consequently accepted. It happened that fast \u2014 about 2 hours. The house never even hit the open market, and had it, it would have lasted as long as a Black Angus steer in a piranha stream. Next come the inspections to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}