{"id":2291,"date":"2021-04-01T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:46:21","slug":"no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"No Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know what today is, but this no April Fool\u2019s joke \u2014 fifteen (15) years ago today, we moved into our house in Shepherdstown, WV. We had been \u201chomeless” since November of 2015 \u2014 a lot longer than we had planned. We were \u201cassured\u201d that our house would be ready in December (2015.) Based on that information, we agreed to move our of our house in Vienna before Thanksgiving. Our plan was to stay with Kelly and Chris in their new house in Leesburg for 2 or 3 or maybe 4 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well of course our house wasn\u2019t anywhere near being ready by December, or January, or February, or March, or \u2014 to be honest \u2014 April. But on April 1st, we did move in. Almost a year later, the house was probably \u201cready to move in.\u201d Needless to say, we had a few problems with the builder.
But we survived it all, and we\u2019re happy here in Shepherdstown.
\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know what today is, but this no April Fool\u2019s joke \u2014 fifteen (15) years ago today, we moved into our house in Shepherdstown, WV. We had been \u201chomeless” since November of 2015 \u2014 a lot longer than we had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}