{"id":383,"date":"2003-11-17T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/11\/17\/blogging-spaces\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:33:06","slug":"blogging-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/blogging-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/bloggers_painters.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/bloggers_painters_small.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"246\" height=\"296\" VSPACE=\"7\" HSPACE=\"7\" alt=\"Click to enlarge this picture of bloggers painting.\"><\/a><br \/>\n5 bloggers (and one reader), two rooms, one day. That&rsquo;s all you need to finish a long and painful painting job!<\/p>\n<p>Beware next time you casually say to a friend: &laquo; Need help with your new place? &raquo;. They might be the kind of friends, like me, who will actually take you up on your offer and trap you inside a house on a cold and sunny Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A huge dining room and a small bathroom got covered with two coats of paint in the time it takes to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/tlc.discovery.com\/fansites\/tradingspaces\/tradingspaces.html\">Trading Spaces<\/a>. They were fast! We abused these poor people to the point of making them cook their own dinner. I guess it was okay since it was fondue!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedchick.com\/blog\/main.html\">Thanks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/unadorned.org\/dandruff\/\">again<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/i.never.nu\/\">merci<\/a> beaucoup! I can&rsquo;t think of a better way to warm up a house, even though the official housewarming party is still to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 bloggers (and one reader), two rooms, one day. That&rsquo;s all you need to finish a long and painful painting job! Beware next time you casually say to a friend: &laquo; Need help with your new place? &raquo;. They might be the kind of friends, like me, who will actually take you up on your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/blogging-spaces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging spaces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}