{"id":650,"date":"2003-10-08T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=650"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:50:01","slug":"housesitting-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Housesitting Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--106562089319603473-->I am currently house-sitting. I hate it. A few years ago taking care of other people&#8217;s places was fun &#8230; but now that my lifestyle (no pun intended) has changed I find that it really brings out the more sloth-ish tendencies in me. I lay around and stare at the television all evening. I let the dishes pile up in the sink. Work that needs to get done falls by the wayside. Yeesh. Now that&#8217;s not to say that I am gonna stop house sitting because I do get paid. That pay (right now) is gonna help finance home improvements and further my dvd addiction. Plus, next month I get to stay at the bosses &#8230; and who can pass up a malt machine, big screen tv, hot tub <u>and<\/u> the pay that comes from taking care of all that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently house-sitting. I hate it. A few years ago taking care of other people&#8217;s places was fun &#8230; but now that my lifestyle (no pun intended) has changed I find that it really brings out the more sloth-ish tendencies in me. I lay around and stare at the television all evening. I let [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-au","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}