{"id":1543,"date":"2024-01-03T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2024-01-03T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:53:14","slug":"one-piece-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/03\/one-piece-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One piece at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/01\/english-trees\/\">subject of failure<\/a>, there were a lot of bits of broken tree around the neighbourhood today. And Jenny was greeted by this somewhat alarming sight on the school run this morning.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Fence fail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/53440905005\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53440905005_ace64367aa_c.jpg\" alt=\"Fence fail\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes buddy, that&#8217;s my fence<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, not the still-small-but-rapidly-growing boy, but the 8-foot panel laying in the middle of the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>I believe we could say that Storm Henk pushed it beyond its design tolerance, but actually the posts are pretty rotted through and it would be more accurate to declare &#8220;It was just a matter of time&#8221;. Fortunately the panel (and the back it took with it) fell outwards and not onto Henlay-on-Thames below.<\/p>\n<p>It was the work of 5 minutes with my DeWalt cordless and some 6-inch screws to fasten it back in place, at least more or less and temporarily, and Jenny has been organizing the local trade to quote to replace the entire section.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, perhaps I should put up a sign warning people not to go out if it&#8217;s windy?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of failure, there were a lot of bits of broken tree around the neighbourhood today. And Jenny was greeted by this somewhat alarming sight on the school run this morning. No, not the still-small-but-rapidly-growing boy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/03\/one-piece-at-a-time\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,404],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-try-this-at-home","category-nature","tag-15minutepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}