{"id":673,"date":"2009-02-02T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=673"},"modified":"2009-02-02T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:26:00","slug":"building-building-burning-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Building, building, burning bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a bike ride Saturday, I stumbled upon a house that had suffered a major fire recently. My riding partner has a real thing for abandoned buildings, so of course we had to take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think much of it at first. Ragged, charred holes in the roof, smashed windows, door hanging open on one hinge.<\/p>\n<p>But then I reached the front porch and the smell hit me. Even after all this time, I <b>know<\/b> that smell, down to my very bones. Smoked sheet rock and lumber laced with the flat dull smell of barren dirt. My family home burned to the ground when I was nine years old, and that smell <b>still<\/b> jumped out at me as vivid as yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/MiscBlog?feat=embedwebsite#5298343654033442482\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_4WfajfRCVok\/SYd_e0SbxrI\/AAAAAAAABoc\/oswcww8NlBw\/s800\/house%202.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The insides of the house look just as sad as you&#8217;d imagine. Everything ruined, from the combined effects of the fire, the mind-bending amount of water used to extinguish the fire, and the subsequent exposure to the elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a bike ride Saturday, I stumbled upon a house that had suffered a major fire recently. My riding partner has a real thing for abandoned buildings, so of course&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=673\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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":[23,35,43,45],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fire","tag-memories","tag-pdx","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}