{"id":1860,"date":"2007-11-01T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2007-11-01T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:16:46","slug":"the-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"The Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 19. Dad built a garage. We had an attached garage under the house, but this one was detached. it was &#8220;the shop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We built it large, and it had room for a lot of crap. It had a lathe and a mill, a woodstove, a couple stalls that could hold BIG cars. We could park a limo there. <\/p>\n<p>There were chairs. Old recliners, mostly. Stuffing coming out of them. It was the only place on the property where you could read and smoke and drink and play with the dog- and of course fart and cuss and scratch in improper places- while welding, turning, wrenching. it was like TH White&#8217;s &#8220;Combination room&#8221;.  The smell of woodsmoke and pipe tobacco probably permeates it still. <\/p>\n<p>I hope to live long enough to recreate this. I hope I can get my &#8220;combination room&#8221; back. A man&#8217;s retreat, with a man&#8217;s toys inside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 19. Dad built a garage. We had an attached garage under the house, but this one was detached. it was &#8220;the shop&#8221;. We built it large, and it had room for a lot of crap. It had a lathe and a mill, a woodstove, a couple stalls that could hold BIG cars. [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}