{"id":1179,"date":"2007-04-18T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2007-04-18T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:01:16","slug":"the-big-dig-a-la-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"The big dig a la New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s familiar with fabulous cost overruns of the Big Dig in Boston but let me introduce you to the big dig in New Orleans. The concrete guys came to build a retaining wall in the front yard and put in a driveway and sidewalk and entrance path. While digging they broke the water line and had to redo. Then the irrigation guy came and dug a trench and broke the sewer line and started cussing at me about it because I hadn&#8217;t marked it and in all the years he&#8217;s been doing this work he&#8217;s never hit a ceramic line and I looked at him as he was a nutball &#8211; because he is. Meanwhile he told me I had to pay for it and I threw an ever loving fit and stormed back in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, my friend arrives from Boston on Friday and will be treated to mounds of dirt, broken pipes galore, and one very psycho hostess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s familiar with fabulous cost overruns of the Big Dig in Boston but let me introduce you to the big dig in New Orleans. The concrete guys came to build a retaining wall in the front yard and put in a driveway and sidewalk and entrance path. While digging they broke the water line and had to redo. Then the irrigation guy came and dug a trench and broke the sewer line and started cussing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-j1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}