{"id":51,"date":"2008-05-21T04:47:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/51\/married-handy-girl-story-swing-set\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:58:17","slug":"i-married-handy-girl-story-swing-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-married-handy-girl-story-swing-set\/","title":{"rendered":"I married a handy girl! (or, The story of the swing set)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah has always been very resourceful, which has been a great  complement to my inherent cheapness during our marriage.  Last fall, as  she was going to visit her sister Becca in Sandy, she saw a swing set by  the side of the road.  She wanted it and she got it, even if it meant  carrying it down the street to the Curzons&#8217; while she was 6 months  pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>We disassembled it and brought it to our basement for the winter.   Just a couple of weeks ago, we put it back together and stuck it in  the ground in our backyard.  (Sarah can now add cement work to her list  of home-repair talents, right next to her previously acquired skill with  <a title=\"Sarah's tile work\" href=\"\/pictures\/236\">tile<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Now Audrey has a great place to play in our yard and all it cost  us was a couple of bucks for the cement.  I&#8217;m very proud of Sarah.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Audrey plays on our new swing  set\" href=\"\/pictures\/238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/thumbs\/swingset.jpg\" alt=\"Audrey plays on our new  swing set\" width=\"151\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah has always been very resourceful, which has been a great complement to my inherent cheapness during our marriage. Last fall, as she was going to visit her sister Becca in Sandy, she saw a swing set by the side of the road. She wanted it and she got it, even if it meant carrying&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-married-handy-girl-story-swing-set\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I married a handy girl! (or, The story of the swing set)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,67],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-being-cheap","tag-sarah","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}