It’s mildly embarrassing when the siding contractor comes out to do an estimate on your home and says, “Hey, you guys will be the ultimate before-and-after pictures.”<\/p>\n
It’s a lot more embarrassing when you can’t disagree with him …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s mildly embarrassing when the siding contractor comes out to do an estimate on your home and says, “Hey, you guys will be the ultimate before-and-after pictures.” It’s a lot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5264,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/home_improvemen.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":0},"title":"Home Improvement","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Apr-04 10:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Slow, but steady, progress on the Big Projects. A\/C Got a pretty expensive (~$7K) estimate from one guy a month-plus ago for replacing the 20-yr-old furnace with a new furnace...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4476,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/the_joys_of_hom.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":1},"title":"The joys of home ownership","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Aug-03 10:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of our Home Improvement goals for the summer was to get the house painted. Margie handled finding a painter. I handled contacting the HOA. Everything was all set. They...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6379,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/margie_rocks_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":2},"title":"Margie ROCKS!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Sep-04 3:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in one day ... ... she fielded calls from the siding touch-up painters to arrange their coming back out to fix problems they made (after I gently mentioned to...","rel":"","context":"In "Food & Drink"","block_context":{"text":"Food & Drink","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/taking_sides.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":3},"title":"Taking sides","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Aug-04 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"They began work on our siding today. Woo-hoo! Pictures have been added to the Siding Gallery....","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6684,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/04\/foxy_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":4},"title":"Foxy","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Aug-04 3:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doyce relates a fun Firefox-related anecdote. And then ends up linking a lot to me, which is mildly embarrassing (but gave me a chance to discuss my current tabbed browsing...","rel":"","context":"In "My Computer"","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/siding.html","url_meta":{"origin":6126,"position":5},"title":"Siding","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Apr-04 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So we have cedar siding. And it needs replacement. But I can't find anyone who actually installs cedar siding. Vinyl siding, no problem. But no cedar siding. Who does one...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}