{"id":1126,"date":"2015-03-30T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T04:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2015-05-30T23:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T05:33:31","slug":"planning-is-such-a-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Planning is Such a Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate when I get materials ready for a project, only to spend the available time doing silly things like planning. Measure once, cut twice (at least that&#8217;s how it seems to work lately). I once built a level yard from a sloped one, complete with a three foot high, 80 foot wide brick wall. Thirteen tons of fill gravel, probably three times that much topsoil, and 560 bricks at 27 lbs each. I moved it all by hand and wheelbarrow. The first couple of weeks, it looked as if I had done nothing whatsoever. Then it seemed to explode. <\/p>\n<p>I hated all the methodical planning. But I hated laying the first layer of bricks most of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate when I get materials ready for a project, only to spend the available time doing silly things like planning. Measure once, cut twice (at least that&#8217;s how it seems to work lately). I once built a level yard from a sloped one, complete with a three foot high, 80 foot wide brick wall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}