{"id":29,"date":"2004-12-16T13:29:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2004\/12\/16\/paint-your-wagon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:34:07","slug":"paint-your-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2004\/12\/16\/paint-your-wagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint your wagon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiyomi and I had ordered some more &#8220;cream&#8221; coloured paint from one of the main hardware stores here (called &#8220;<a title=\"How's\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.okazaki-seizai.co.jp\/i-shop\/top.pasp?to=tp\">How&#8217;s<\/a>&#8220;) and were told that they&#8217;ll call when it&#8217;s in. Not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>They called us this morning saying it had arrived. Excellent. Only problem was they called us at 8:45am and you can get a 10% discount if you buy before 9:00am.<\/p>\n<p>Gotourstufftogetherjumpedinthecaranddrovetothehardwarestore. Phew. Got there with about three minutes to spare and was able to get 10% off.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t laugh, 10% is 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Took all of the paint to the office\/classroom and started applying the second coat to the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>We finally finished the ceiling at about 12:30pm. Were my arms, shoulders and back tired. What.<\/p>\n<p>The ceiling looks a lot better now. All that remains are the walls, window frames\/ledges and skirting board and then we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiyomi and I had ordered some more &#8220;cream&#8221; coloured paint from one of the main hardware stores here (called &#8220;How&#8217;s&#8220;) and were told that they&#8217;ll call when it&#8217;s in. Not a problem. They called us this morning saying it had arrived. Excellent. Only problem was they called us at 8:45am and you can get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}