{"id":766,"date":"2006-09-18T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/tis-a-pirate-life-for-me\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T19:21:34","slug":"tis-a-pirate-life-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/tis-a-pirate-life-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis a Pirate life for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/piratehome.html\">Talk Like a Pirate day<\/a>, which is tomorrow, then why not live like a pirate all of the time?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe how so completely totally awesomely this pirate playhouse rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Pirate Playhouse\" alt=\"Pirate Playhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/pirateplayhouse.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a mere $19000USD you can own this sucker, but you will have to do some &#8220;site preparation&#8221; yourself, like pouring a concrete slab with footers to support the weight of this thing.  I can&#8217;t imagine a cooler thing to have as a kid though.  If you are the child of an independently wealthy and successful pirate who now lives in the burbs, that is.<br \/>\nThe funniest part of the whole thing is you can buy this thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Browse\/Product.aspx?Prodid=11165003&#038;whse=BC&#038;Ne=4000000&#038;N=4000486&#038;Mo=47&#038;No=0&#038;Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&#038;cat=1482&#038;Ns=P_Price%7C1%7C%7CP_SignDesc1&#038;Sp=C&#038;topnav=\">from Costco<\/a>, which lists all of the stuff you have to do to receive the thing (concrete slab poured, have a crane or forklift handy when the 18 wheeler rolls in, etc), but then goes on to say that you can return it at any of their 400 locations.  Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/danielswoodland.com\/index.html\">manufacturers website<\/a> and it&#8217;s just incredible the range of tree houses they offer.   I wish I was a kid with lots of money&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like Talk Like a Pirate day, which is tomorrow, then why not live like a pirate all of the time? I can&#8217;t believe how so completely totally awesomely this pirate playhouse rocks. For a mere $19000USD you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/tis-a-pirate-life-for-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}