{"id":573887373,"date":"2014-12-27T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887373"},"modified":"2014-12-28T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:27:13","slug":"coming-down-the-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/12\/27\/coming-down-the-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming down the tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My godfather-in-law knows a lot about trains. He&#8217;s been doing this for years. It has taken over most of the family basement. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9QjsY_-1i0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s torn it down and rebuilt it twice. There&#8217;s a general idea in mind, but sometimes new models change your plans. The ice factory had to go up front because it was such a fine display. And there&#8217;s one bend of mountains that are simply too good to move from where they are. <\/p>\n<p>He had a neighbor out back who also collected trains and there was talk, for a time, of burying a PVC pipe, a tunnel, where they could run through both houses. He was apparently a high roller, a &#8220;forget the house, get the trains,&#8221; kind of guy. He moved away and sold all of his train material to someone else. <\/p>\n<p>That guy came up because I mentioned you could put some tunnels in this wall here or that wall there and run track into other rooms. But that&#8217;s probably not in the cards. His latest expansion has come out from one corner of the basement and into about half of the room, a negotiation. He built a cedar closet for his wife. <\/p>\n<p>Just keep that in mind, he said, &#8220;You can go a long way on a cedar closet.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For Christmas his granddaughter got a watch that has a video camera in it. (Kids these days.) He&#8217;s now ready to put that watch on a train car and shoot the town from the miniaturized view. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My godfather-in-law knows a lot about trains. He&#8217;s been doing this for years. It has taken over most of the family basement. He says he&#8217;s torn it down and rebuilt it twice. There&#8217;s a general idea in mind, but sometimes new models change your plans. The ice factory had to go up front because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,28,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-family","category-iphone","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887374,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887373\/revisions\/573887374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}