{"id":1100,"date":"2006-12-23T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2006-12-23T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T07:51:28","slug":"attempting-to-flood-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Attempting to flood the basement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a leak in a pipe in the basement so I decided to try making a quick repair using Aquapex. It&#8217;s a temporary fix, so I figure I could experiment. Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t hurt myself too much and the pipes only leak a little (stupid old pipe).<\/p>\n<p>The Aquapex was incredibly easy to work with. The only problems I had were getting the old pipe out and cutting the Aquapex too short because I am not a real plumber. In fact, I cut it too short twice. I&#8217;ve done a lot of plumbing around the house and I know why plumbers get paid so much (because they&#8217;re worth it) but I&#8217;m too stupid to not try to fix things myself. It&#8217;s kind of fun and probably costs me more in the long run (don&#8217;t ask me how I ended up with seven pipe wrenches.) I suppose the whole buying tools thing also is a way to show off my manliness. SEVEN PIPE WRENCHES LADIES! That&#8217;s what I should have had on match.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a leak in a pipe in the basement so I decided to try making a quick repair using Aquapex. It&#8217;s a temporary fix, so I figure I could experiment. Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t hurt myself too much and the pipes only leak a little (stupid old pipe). The Aquapex was incredibly easy to work with. The only problems I had were getting the old pipe out and cutting the Aquapex too short because I am not a real plumber. In fact, I cut it too short twice. I&#8217;ve done a lot of plumbing around the house and I know why plumbers get paid so much (because they&#8217;re worth it) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attempting to flood the basement.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}