{"id":721,"date":"2010-02-09T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/?p=721"},"modified":"2024-08-21T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:56:46","slug":"and-pushed-himself-right-out-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2010\/02\/09\/and-pushed-himself-right-out-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and pushed himself right out the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N.B.: This was an old blog entry which was lost a long time ago when the blogging software developed a (serious) problem, and has now only been found.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2010\/02\/01\/under-the-stairs\/\">before<\/a> about we\u2019re looking at getting our AV equipment housed under the stairs and had contacted two builders for quotes.<\/p>\n<p>We heard back from one (Mr Pushy) who came around with the written quote for us. He did a follow up call some 30 minutes later and true to form started to push. \u201cQuoted prices are for now\u201d and \u201cYou have to make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well sod that for a game of soldiers, we were going to consider his offer, but the point of a quote is to know how much a builder is willing to do a job for and to give you some time to make a decision. As he clearly wasn\u2019t going to give us time to consider it he was informed that due to excessive pressure we weren\u2019t going with him.<\/p>\n<p>He can just push off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.B.: This was an old blog entry which was lost a long time ago when the blogging software developed a (serious) problem, and has now only been found. I mentioned before about we\u2019re looking at getting our AV equipment housed under the stairs and had contacted two builders for quotes. We heard back from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-builders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}