{"id":5656,"date":"2014-02-03T01:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2014-02-03T01:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T23:11:43","slug":"another-week-another-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/another-week-another-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Another week, another <em>thing<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this week might be a <em>bit<\/em> of a cop-out. What free time I&#8217;ve had has been spent re-painting the hallway at home. We&#8217;ve talked about doing something there for a while, and even though the shelving isn&#8217;t cut to size yet, we figured that painting the space would be a good start. Unless you&#8217;d argue that the white paint is meant to symbolise the white box of modern art galleries, it&#8217;s nowhere nere anything creative. But it&#8217;s done, and it took long enough, so I&#8217;m putting that up on my list of &#8220;getting one thing done a week&#8221; list. Hey ho, next week will be more fun, promise!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and an update on last weeks pin-project: I&#8217;ve heard back from three of the five manufacturers I contacted for making the pin, and once they&#8217;re back from Chinese New Years, I&#8217;m hoping to have enough information to order a sample mold. It might be cheaper to manufacture over there than here, but it&#8217;s still a bit of money, so I&#8217;m trying to vet the companies with what little China-slothing I command\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Saturday evening was spent at Gabriels cabin, where five of us sat in a sauna for three hours and intermittently bathed in a 4\u00b0C stream. After a couple of times it didn&#8217;t feel as dying anymore. Haven&#8217;t done winter bathing since Turku, and it was brilliant. The steam fogged up the camera and killed the flash though; Next time I&#8217;ll rig something to better capture the expression of turning into an ice lolly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ommalning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5658\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/isvak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5661\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this week might be a bit of a cop-out. What free time I&#8217;ve had has been spent re-painting the hallway at home. We&#8217;ve talked about doing something there for a while, and even though the shelving isn&#8217;t cut to size yet, we figured that painting the space would be a good start. Unless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/another-week-another-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another week, another <em>thing<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,546],"tags":[1837,1838,1840,1839,537,445],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-projects","tag-bathing","tag-cold-so-cold","tag-homesteading","tag-painting","tag-project","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}