{"id":475,"date":"2013-07-26T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2013-07-26T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:26:25","slug":"pip-and-the-new-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"pip and the new house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"this is pip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/9371302760\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"this is pip\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3823\/9371302760_51f56a0448_z.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is Pip. He&#8217;s a fluffy little ball of terror&#8211; attacking everything that moves and some things that don&#8217;t. He purrs in an instant, loves to perch on our shoulders, and we like him in spite of our bevy of scratch marks (although we haven&#8217;t gotten many since we trimmed his claws, so that one&#8217;s on us). We adopted this little menace about a week before we moved houses, which may not usually be the best idea&#8211; but he and Lexi seemed to start to tolerate each other just after we moved in, so everything worked out okay. She&#8217;s not totally convinced this creature in perpetual-attack-mode is a good idea, but I think she&#8217;ll warm up to him when he mellows out and spends more than a second standing still.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"lexi at the new house\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/9368438867\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"lexi at the new house\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5527\/9368438867_5b55bb754e_z.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So far, home ownership has been exciting, expensive, and challenging. It&#8217;s hard to prioritize the many home improvements we want to make, especially when we are limited by time and money. We got a nice surprise when we pulled up some laminate &#8220;wood&#8221; flooring to find paint-covered red oak hardwoods underneath. Score! After they&#8217;re refinished, we can finally unpack our things and retire from the nomad lifestyle. I&#8217;m counting down the days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Pip. He&#8217;s a fluffy little ball of terror&#8211; attacking everything that moves and some things that don&#8217;t. He purrs in an instant, loves to perch on our shoulders, and we like him in spite of our bevy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}