{"id":467,"date":"2011-06-01T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2011-06-17T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T02:30:14","slug":"deck-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/deck-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Deck Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why pay someone else, if you can do it yourself? \u00a0That’s what I was thinking when I decided to power wash and stain our deck. \u00a0I watched someone do ours a few years ago — it didn’t look that hard, and I’ve watched a few youtube videos — I’m set right?<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve done it, I can tell you that it was not as easy as it looked, and I’m sure it didn’t turn out as well as it might have if I had paid to have it done. \u00a0Of course having said that, I have paid plenty of people to do a not so very good job, so I guess I got my “not so very good job” for free right? \u00a0Actually, I think it turned out okay — it was just a tiring job for someone who thinks she is younger than she really is!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why pay someone else, if you can do it yourself? \u00a0That’s what I was thinking when I decided to power wash and stain our deck. \u00a0I watched someone do ours a few years ago — it didn’t look that hard, and I’ve watched a few youtube videos — I’m set right? Now that I’ve done … Continue reading Deck Project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-michelene"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LkuZ-7x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}