{"id":1112,"date":"2004-05-07T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:10:13","slug":"i-would-rather-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"I Would Rather Be &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--108394937422015154-->You want to know what the crazy thing is? When you become a homeowner (especially of an older home like I have), you find that you want to make improvements and such. Now, you may ask, &#8220;Why is that so crazy?&#8221; Wanting to change stuff isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s bad. The fact that I am probably going to give up a beautiful Saturday afternoon to rip down paneling in my bedroom and office is what&#8217;s crazy. And, truth be told, I think I would much rather do that than go see a movie or take a walk in the woods. Crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know what the crazy thing is? When you become a homeowner (especially of an older home like I have), you find that you want to make improvements and such. Now, you may ask, &#8220;Why is that so crazy?&#8221; Wanting to change stuff isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s bad. The fact that I am probably going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-home-improvements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-hW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}