{"id":788,"date":"2021-05-03T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=788"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:20:05","slug":"in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The water meter for this house is out front, underground, beneath a kind of manhole. Whoever installed the cover thought that plywood would be a good support for cast iron. Eventually, of course the plywood rotted away and the cover assembly fell into the hole. Last year, I replaced what was left of the plywood with some leftover Trex decking, but then I had this circle of Trex cut out from the middle, and a hillside full of pavers in back of the house&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/misc\/hobbithole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/misc\/hobbithole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Hobbit Hole, 1105A<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It could probably use some more work on the stones, and maybe some iron banding across the front, but for now at least it is out of the garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water meter for this house is out front, underground, beneath a kind of manhole. Whoever installed the cover thought that plywood would be a good support for cast iron. Eventually, of course the plywood rotted away and the cover assembly fell into the hole. Last year, I replaced what was left of the plywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[472,470,471],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-projects","tag-hobbit-hole","tag-hobbits","tag-holes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}