{"id":52,"date":"2013-04-11T04:37:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-06-08T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:51:48","slug":"first-attempt-at-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"First Attempt At Digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold morning in January that had been anticipated for months on end.\u00a0 January 23, 2013 was to be our dig day.\u00a0 Mist exited our mouths not simply because our breath was warmer than the outside air, it exited because it was burning with excitement.\u00a0 We were about to birth a house!<\/p>\n<p>We were to meet our builder on the land at 8:30 that Monday morning.\u00a0 Upon our prompt arrival, we were delighted to see that all initially integral parties were already there.\u00a0 John was about to experience his second &#8220;Big Dig&#8221; (he&#8217;s from Massachusetts &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Dig\">Big Dig<\/a>), I my first.<\/p>\n<p>With all the rain that had fallen from the sky since the start of the New Year, the dig did not happen.\u00a0 It was more the Big Sink, literally.\u00a0 The excavator sunk so far into the mud that instead of digging with the front arm shovel, it was used to push and lift the excavator from the sinkhole in which it found itself.<\/p>\n<p>John and I were too despondent to stay until the excavator was reloaded onto the flatbed and driven away to await some future Big Dig in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/digging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104 aligncenter\" alt=\"digging\" src=\"http:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/digging-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/digging-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/digging-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/digging.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold morning in January that had been anticipated for months on end.\u00a0 January 23, 2013 was to be our dig day.\u00a0 Mist exited our mouths not simply because our breath was warmer than the outside air, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehallfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}