{"id":150,"date":"2003-09-23T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T20:31:55","slug":"in-the-basement-renovation-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/in-the-basement-renovation-business\/","title":{"rendered":"In the basement renovation business,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the basement renovation business, there&#8217;s crazy and then there&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.axemusic.com\/services\/custom_installations\/home_theatre\/dream_home.htm\">plain stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn between the immediate need for a finished playroom and the future need (ok, want) for a home theatre.  How much should I prepare for now, knowing I don&#8217;t currently have home theatre gear, nor the money to buy it?  There&#8217;s a lot here to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the beginning of a death spiral of decisions that I will have to try to make and just end up not making at all.  Just you watch.<\/p>\n<p>On a sadder note, Art Carlson of WKRP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/Television\/sep23_jump-ap.html\">died yesterday<\/a>.  That was a really funny guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the basement renovation business, there&#8217;s crazy and then there&#8217;s just plain stupid. I&#8217;m torn between the immediate need for a finished playroom and the future need (ok, want) for a home theatre. How much should I prepare for now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/in-the-basement-renovation-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-2q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}