{"id":305,"date":"2010-03-01T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2010\/03\/01\/thats-my-room\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T19:40:00","slug":"thats-my-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s My Room!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat\u2019s mine!\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">Saturday morning the excitement of Sterling, Kyle, and John finally drowned out the shouts and calls of the work crews managing the pour for the new house on the block\u2014Isaiah House, where the four guys from Joseph House will move when it\u2019s completed.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xp3XgAulJbI\/S4wW6PVnV0I\/AAAAAAAAAEY\/JM-_lnpuawE\/s1600-h\/Transfer+Jan+Feb+2010+516.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" kt=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xp3XgAulJbI\/S4wW6PVnV0I\/AAAAAAAAAEY\/JM-_lnpuawE\/s320\/Transfer+Jan+Feb+2010+516.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">They weren\u2019t the only ones excited. Jerry parked himself at the gate early to make sure it would be open for the big concrete trucks to start rumbling through starting at about 8:00 o\u2019clock.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">The huge boom arched over the pad like a scorpion to deliver the wet mud. Workers pushed and pulled and smoothed and finished. Our three guys scratched their names in a tiny corner, pointing out to Calvin, their weekend staff buddy, where he would stay when the house was finished.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">These guys have been living at Joseph House, on the south Spur part of the Ranch, and have long expressed their desire to live in the Village with everybody else. They\u2019ve feel especially cut off this winter, with the sun going down almost as soon as they get off work. Even on the weekends they\u2019ve had to ask someone to drive them over if they want to visit someone in the Village because of our seemingly endless rain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xp3XgAulJbI\/S4wXnN3_mEI\/AAAAAAAAAEg\/ikRBr1ZOfFg\/s1600-h\/Sterling+at+pour.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"133\" kt=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xp3XgAulJbI\/S4wXnN3_mEI\/AAAAAAAAAEg\/ikRBr1ZOfFg\/s200\/Sterling+at+pour.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So they are pumped at this great beginning! They\u2019re ready to move tomorrow, but we must complete a long journey before Isaiah House is ready for move-in\u2014electrical, plumbing, framing, interior walls, dry wall, windows, doors, finish work, painting, carpet, appliances, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026well begun is half done, as they say, and we\u2019re on our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat\u2019s mine!\u201d Saturday morning the excitement of Sterling, Kyle, and John finally drowned out the shouts and calls of the work crews managing the pour for the new house on the block\u2014Isaiah House, where the four guys from Joseph House will move when it\u2019s completed. They weren\u2019t the only ones excited. Jerry parked himself at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}