{"id":149,"date":"2004-01-10T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-01-10T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2004-01-10T17:25:47","slug":"metuchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/01\/10\/metuchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Metuchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"four_cannings_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/four_cannings_sm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"349\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSusan, Diane, Frank and Florence &#8211; 1954<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/four_cannings.html\">View larger, grainier &#8211; it&#8217;s an old photo,  what do you expect &#8211;  image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I woke up this morning to six below and frozen heating pipes. After I  positioned  my space heater and hair dryer over the ice cold copper, the phone rang. It was Steven Varga wondering why his kitchen faucet wasn\u00c3\u00adt working.  It took me a minute or so to convince him that his pipes were probably frozen, and to impress upon him how important it was to thaw them out. And not to leave the house until water was again running through that faucet. Before the conversation ended,  he sounded sufficiently alarmed, but to further make my point, I sent him this <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/common\/mike\/misc\/frozen.jpg\">photo <\/a> passed to me by Shiny Dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan, Diane, Frank and Florence &#8211; 1954 View larger, grainier &#8211; it&#8217;s an old photo, what do you expect &#8211; image I woke up this morning to six below and frozen heating pipes. After I positioned my space heater and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/01\/10\/metuchen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}