{"id":652,"date":"2010-10-28T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/28\/postcard-44\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:44:00","slug":"postcard-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/28\/postcard-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard #44"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TMoWtGUcRhI\/AAAAAAABKjg\/K5vMgjYL6uk\/s1600\/IMG_0001.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"242\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TMoWtGUcRhI\/AAAAAAABKjg\/K5vMgjYL6uk\/s320\/IMG_0001.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TMoWvwavnuI\/AAAAAAABKjk\/1TJGuYqMiRs\/s1600\/IMG_0002.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TMoWvwavnuI\/AAAAAAABKjk\/1TJGuYqMiRs\/s320\/IMG_0002.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After my sister and I both graduated college and moved away for good, my parents sold the house we&#8217;d grown up in and bought a smaller house on a hill in RPV.  Then they moved into an apartment, temporarily, while my father &#8220;remodeled&#8221;<b>*<\/b> the modest home into a huge mansion.  (As my sister says, you could hide immigrant families under the giant island counter in the kitchen.  And as DeeAnn says, you could hide bodies inside that Sub-Zero refrigerator.)  They have a koi pond and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2008\/01\/view-from-my-parents-house.html\">a beautiful view<\/a> out their back window, and we always enjoy visiting when we get the chance.<\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b> Apparently, if you leave just one wall standing of the original structure, you don&#8217;t need the more expensive type of building permit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my sister and I both graduated college and moved away for good, my parents sold the house we&#8217;d grown up in and bought a smaller house on a hill in RPV. Then they moved into an apartment, temporarily, while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[97,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-37postcards","category-family"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}