{"id":1978,"date":"2019-02-10T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2019-02-10T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:55:01","slug":"our-first-christmas-at-the-new-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/our-first-christmas-at-the-new-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first Christmas at the new house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/the-next-and-hopefully-last-plumbing-disaster\/\">plumbing issue<\/a> that came up over the holidays, we had a great Christmas in our new house, with six family members and one dog coming to stay &#8211; 11 of us in total.\u00a0 The house looked great.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the preparation for our Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1979\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4356-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4356-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4356-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4356-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lisa and my mother made a great beef Wellington.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4347-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4347-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4347-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To accommodate everyone, in addition to our two official guest rooms, we managed to cobble together two additional bedroom sets and create an additional two guest rooms in our basement.\u00a0 The house worked very well with a lot of guests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the plumbing issue that came up over the holidays, we had a great Christmas in our new house, with six family members and one dog coming to stay &#8211; 11 of us in total.\u00a0 The house looked great. Here is the preparation for our Christmas dinner. Lisa and my mother made a great beef<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/our-first-christmas-at-the-new-house\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Our first Christmas at the new house<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ruminations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}