{"id":671,"date":"2007-11-16T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:46:12","slug":"banistration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Banistration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first bought the house in Maine, a bit more than 3 years ago, the stairs looked like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/2038394099\/\" title=\"the old banister by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2050\/2038394099_3a8c849cfc_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"204\" alt=\"the old banister\" \/><\/a><br \/>Our friend Scott Strang, who has built a few staircases in his day, pronounced the banister <b>&#8220;butt ugly&#8221;<\/b> (and he&#8217;s ordinarily a moderate sort of chap). He was right. My colleagues at Washington &#038; Lee gave me a gift certificate at a fancy hardwood store as a Retirement present, and I cashed it in (more than a year ago) on the wherewithal for a replacement, newel post and balusters and banister and all. The pieces leaned meaningfully in a corner while I figured and schemed and thought about HOW to install them, and today Tim Lewis (who has built a few staircases in <i>his<\/i> day) did the installation in about 6 hours. It would have taken me several days&#8230; but now it&#8217;s glorious:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/2038368401\/\" title=\"the new banister by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2223\/2038368401_f66d751d0c_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"the new banister\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first bought the house in Maine, a bit more than 3 years ago, the stairs looked like this: Our friend Scott Strang, who has built a few staircases in his day, pronounced the banister &#8220;butt ugly&#8221; (and he&#8217;s ordinarily a moderate sort of chap). He was right. My colleagues at Washington &#038; Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}