{"id":782,"date":"2007-02-27T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=782"},"modified":"2007-02-27T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:06:56","slug":"why-i-love-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/02\/27\/why-i-love-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not because they cost me money every time they walk through the door, though that&#8217;s certainly an endearing quality.\u00c2\u00a0 No, the best thing about contractors is that they have an authority I don&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 So when they tell Leah something that I&#8217;ve told her before and been dismissed for, she listens to them.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank God they don&#8217;t charge for doling out advice.<\/p>\n<p>We were out this morning to meet with a pest inspector, a plumber, and a general contractor who might do our floors and put in a new kitchen countertop.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve received one bid so far, for the floors, and it was pricey.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll just have to see how all this shakes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not because they cost me money every time they walk through the door, though that&#8217;s certainly an endearing quality.\u00c2\u00a0 No, the best thing about contractors is that they have an authority I don&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 So when they tell Leah something that I&#8217;ve told her before and been dismissed for, she listens to them.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-cC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}