{"id":250,"date":"2010-03-19T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/03\/19\/100319_thegate\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T23:12:02","slug":"100319_thegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/19\/100319_thegate\/","title":{"rendered":"AB\/T Gate Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss me? I&#8217;ve been berry, berry busy, working on a special pwoject to defeat those wascally wabbits, and it&#8217;s finally finished. I pwesent to you the world&#8217;s most time-consuming Anti-Bunny\/Tumbleweed Gate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/gate.jpg\" alt=\"Steel gate\"><\/p>\n<p>This gate took me approximately 18,000 hours to complete, with 463 discreet steps and 139 different tools (power and other), not to mention enough steel to build a suspension bridge over a decent-sized river. But that&#8217;s not important; what&#8217;s important is that my wife&#8217;s ground cover will no longer be bunny food*, nor shall this section of our yard become the equivalent of the elephants&#8217; graveyard for tumbleweeds.<\/p>\n<p><i>*Unless, that is, they learn to pole vault. And, frankly, I&#8217;m a bit worried about that prospect.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss me? I&#8217;ve been berry, berry busy, working on a special pwoject to defeat those wascally wabbits, and it&#8217;s finally finished. I pwesent to you the world&#8217;s most time-consuming Anti-Bunny\/Tumbleweed Gate: This gate took me approximately 18,000 hours to complete, with 463 discreet steps and 139 different tools (power and other), not to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/19\/100319_thegate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AB\/T Gate Completed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-diy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}