{"id":573892294,"date":"2020-06-16T21:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T01:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892294"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T05:25:54","slug":"an-early-fathers-day-post-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/06\/16\/an-early-fathers-day-post-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"An early Father&#8217;s Day post, of sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into this house a few years ago we discovered some unfinished attic space above the garage. We wanted to use that space for storage. When the folks came up the first time my step-father offered to help. So we picked up some lumber and he bought me some extra tools and we spent a day telling ourselves &#8220;This is an attic, no one will ever see it but us. It doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect.&#8221; It merely needed to be functional. We needed some walking and storage space.<\/p>\n<p>We set about cutting plywood to fit all of the interesting angles of an attic and sweated and installed it all. When it was done I climbed out of the attic and passed the first thing back inside it to my step-father. It felt right that he should put the first thing into the space. He made it usable, after all. <\/p>\n<p>The attic is valuable storage. More valuable for this, which I saw again the other day when I was putting something away in there, because we&#8217;d also asked him to sign his handiwork. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june20\/june27.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad we did that. When I&#8217;m prowling around in the attic, as I was tonight to store an extra window screen, I see that right away, and it always makes me smile. I&#8217;m grateful that he takes the time to do these sorts of things every now and again. There&#8217;s always something new to learn, always some valuable experience to gain, some time worth spending on it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great space, but more space would allow me to organize it. So I wonder if I should put in more flooring. And what we were doing with all of this stuff in the first month or two in the house before we had this extra space.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in the fall. One summer sweat in the attic those years ago was enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into this house a few years ago we discovered some unfinished attic space above the garage. We wanted to use that space for storage. When the folks came up the first time my step-father offered to help. So we picked up some lumber and he bought me some extra tools and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-memories","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892295,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892294\/revisions\/573892295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}