{"id":686,"date":"2008-08-02T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2008-08-02T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:51:12","slug":"favourite_place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/favourite_place\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe front of the house faces the street, but the opposite side (with the veranda) also feels like the front, because that&rsquo;s where we spend most of our time. The garden side is the sunny side, the green side, the living and playing side. (The third side feels mostly like a passage between the two front sides, and the fourth side I rarely think about.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy favourite place in the garden is at the steps leading down from the veranda. The steps are often comfortably sun-warmed, and there are plants on every side of me. I have a good overview of that half of the garden from there. It&#8217;s a good place for reading, snacking, or doing slow tasks like peeling lots of potatoes. I also like just sitting on the steps, looking out over the garden and whoever may be there (Ingrid, Eric, birds, or the neighbour&rsquo;s cat). Surveying my kingdom.\n<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Veranda_steps.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"imagecaption\">Eric and Ingrid also like sitting there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front of the house faces the street, but the opposite side (with the veranda) also feels like the front, because that&rsquo;s where we spend most of our time. The garden side is the sunny side, the green side, the living and playing side. (The third side feels mostly like a passage between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}