{"id":3865,"date":"2006-07-23T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/07\/23\/the-project-report-making-squares\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T00:58:25","slug":"the-project-report-making-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/07\/23\/the-project-report-making-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project Report: Making Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was finally able to spend a few more hours on <a title=\"From the Gazette Archives: Day One\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/07\/15\/the-project-report-making-sparks\/\">The Project<\/a>, with the following outcome:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/2006project\/framework.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of steel framework\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\"><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, you&#8217;ll notice that I abandoned my initial strategy of beveling the ends of the tubing to make nice seams. I might have continued with that approach if the resulting seams had actually been nice, but they weren&#8217;t so I&#8217;m not and I&#8217;ve decided, in true making-lemonade-from-squashed-and-mutilated-lemons fashion, that I&#8217;ll be able to use the open ends of the tubing to store stuff. And no, I don&#8217;t know what; that&#8217;s not even important so don&#8217;t worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the appearance in the photo, the frame is about as square as an Escher print. But it&#8217;s strong and acquiring roughly the same shape as my blueprint and at the end of the day, I&#8217;m satisfied with it.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more exciting developments. But first, I have to find some expanded metal grating, which may be a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project is taking shape. Right angles are overrated, you know.<\/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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopware","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\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}