{"id":98,"date":"2003-08-05T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/05\/the-long-weekend\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T15:06:04","slug":"the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a MOST interesting long weekend!  We started off Saturday by ripping out the old deck in the back yard.  I wish I could say that was without incident, but it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We got most of the deck out, and I was removing nails from the boards (I don&#8217;t need a kid stepping on a rusty nail), but who gets the nail?  ME!  And not in the foot either.  I was picking up a board to drag it to where I was removing the nails when it flipped on me and drove 2 inches of rusty nail into my forearm.  Sure it doesn&#8217;t sound that bad, but according to the paramedic (yes, the paramedic) I must have it a vein or artery.  I have never seen blood pump out of my body like that, and I have to admit I got a little bit wigged out.  I was home alone with the kids, too.<\/p>\n<p>So, Dylan called 911 while I got a tournaquet (sp?) on.  By the time the ambulance got there it had actually stopped bleeding.  There was really nothing they could do, either.  <\/p>\n<p>So here I am, unable to play my guitar, but still getting the area ready for the new deck.  I figure it will take me a couple weeks of evenings, but it&#8217;ll get done this summer for sure.  We&#8217;ve also been video taping the progress so I&#8217;ll get some shots on the web soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a MOST interesting long weekend! We started off Saturday by ripping out the old deck in the back yard. I wish I could say that was without incident, but it wasn&#8217;t. We got most of the deck out, and I was removing nails from the boards (I don&#8217;t need a kid stepping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}