{"id":1092,"date":"2010-03-19T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T00:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/03\/19\/beyond-sorrow\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T23:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:48:50","slug":"beyond-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1092","title":{"rendered":"Beyond sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise V &#8212;day nineteen&#8212;<\/span> We finally \u201cpulled the trigger\u201d and hired a roofer, ending years of distress that stemmed from our inability to afford the kind of roof we truly wanted. Someday, perhaps, this bungalow will once again wear a clay tile roof, as it did in the 1920s, but, sadly, we won\u2019t be the ones to provide it. We can\u2019t even swing the metal simulation, so we\u2019ll do the best thing we can\u2014 restore the original terracotta color with a premium asphalt shingle. We\u2019re tired of the indecision and just can\u2019t attempt another rainy season with buckets throughout the attic. It\u2019s time to press on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Low shafts of morning light <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> as they wrap around the ancient maple\u2019s gnarled bark.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Previously on M-Ex&#8212;<\/span> Our favorite hoops-gril finishes her high school career. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/03\/19\/top-gril\/\"><em>(3\/19\/09)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Our first visit to the Kentucky Artisan Center&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/townhouse.jpg' alt='townhouse' title='ready for her makeover'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise V &#8212;day nineteen&#8212; We finally \u201cpulled the trigger\u201d and hired a roofer, ending years of distress that stemmed from our inability to afford the kind of roof we truly wanted. Someday, perhaps, this bungalow will once again wear a clay tile roof, as it did in the 1920s, but, sadly, we won\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,38,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}