{"id":1040,"date":"2013-04-01T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2013-04-01T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:58:48","slug":"firewood-of-another-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Firewood of Another Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working like a horse yesterday and today, collecting wood from a house being gutted and refurbished down in town, and figuring out what to do with it all. Some bits are good enough to make stuff out of, including hanging &#8220;doors&#8221; for the woodshed to keep the worst of the rain out without hampering airflow (pictures of those tomorrow) but a lot of it is only suitable for burning on a bonfire. Good thing we have a lot of those.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1042\" title=\"PICT0002\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0002.jpg\" alt=\"the outdoor-fire pile\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0002-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One look in the shed where we keep that sort of wood, now that it&#8217;s got slowly melting snow on top, told us that the driest bit was straight down the middle. So now there&#8217;s a long stack of firewood cut to useable lengths there. Which is amazing, considering that previously there was this cement mixer. Elmo managed to move it with brute strength and force of will.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1041\" title=\"PICT0001\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0001.jpg\" alt=\"the cement mixer\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working like a horse yesterday and today, collecting wood from a house being gutted and refurbished down in town, and figuring out what to do with it all. Some bits are good enough to make stuff out of, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}