{"id":2947,"date":"2008-04-27T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2008-04-27T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T18:16:25","slug":"teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/04\/27\/teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1606\" title=\"Wee Beastie\">Wee Beastie<\/a>&#8221; post of two years ago, in which a tree-destroying vehicle shows up on our neighbor&#8217;s lawn and the next day begins some deforestation leading up to demolition of their split-level ranch, to be replaced with better, as you&#8217;ll see.\u00c2\u00a0 As I got into my car to go to work each morning (and sometimes on weekends), I&#8217;d snap a picture of their progress (though the intervals lengthened as the process wore on &#8212; it kind of ground to a halt last spring for reasons unknown before a final landscaping spate).\u00c2\u00a0 The hydroseeded front lawn is where I leave it last September.<\/p>\n<p>The curious factor for me is that their children are coming of college age &#8212; arguably an odd time to decide to rebuild, especially at such scale.\u00c2\u00a0 The in-ground pool needed $40k of work, Tricia gleaned third hand, so I guess that&#8217;s reason enough for some to build themselves a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanishingreality.com\/common\/adam\/teardown\" target=\"_blank\">half-million manse<\/a> &#8212; kinda like buying a new (and much bigger) car &#8217;cause you need brake work &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember the &#8220;Wee Beastie&#8221; post of two years ago, in which a tree-destroying vehicle shows up on our neighbor&#8217;s lawn and the next day begins some deforestation leading up to demolition of their split-level ranch, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/04\/27\/teardown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}