{"id":1816,"date":"2008-08-03T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:55:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:55:21","slug":"hooray-another-day-in-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Hooray another day in the basement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about this weekend is how well my $20 saw held up. I think I got rid of most of the old pipe in the basement, at least all I could get out. My friend the contractor came by to tell me that he thought all the siding might need to come down and I he was surprised at how much pipe I got out.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pipes.png\" title=\"The pipes I cut out of the basement.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pipes-206x300.png\" alt=\"Old pipe.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The most surprising thing to me was the state of the hot water pipes. One by the hot water heater snapped off when I tried to unscrew it, and the pipe to the bathroom sink was almost completely plugged up with rust.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sinkpipe.png\" title=\"The state of the bathroom sink hot water pipe.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sinkpipe-214x300.png\" alt=\"Bathroom sink hot water pipe.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of the bathroom sink, it decided to start leaking today and I had to replace the drain. So that&#8217;s my life right now: plumbing.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sinkdrain.png\" title=\"The broken drain in the sink.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sinkdrain-225x300.png\" alt=\"Bathroom sink broken drain.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(I always just take a picture to take to the plumber&#8217;s supply so it&#8217;s easier to explain things to the guy at the counter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about this weekend is how well my $20 saw held up. I think I got rid of most of the old pipe in the basement, at least all I could get out. My friend the contractor came by to tell me that he thought all the siding might need to come down and I he was surprised at how much pipe I got out. The most surprising thing to me was the state of the hot water pipes. One by the hot water heater snapped off when I tried to unscrew it, and the pipe to the bathroom sink was almost completely plugged up with rust. Speaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hooray another day in 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-1816","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\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}