{"id":1376,"date":"2014-08-04T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:37:08","slug":"the-longest-piece-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1376","title":{"rendered":"The longest piece of wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1407169134404.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1407169134404\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1407169134404.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 18&#8242;, this $150 piece of cedar (that had to be special ordered via Home Depot) is the longest single piece of our house.\u00a0 &#8220;Crowning&#8221; is a new concept for me, which means making a conscious choice about which side of the piece of wood will face up (well, it will face up once the wall has been put in an upright position).\u00a0 Since wood is organic matter each piece is a bit of a special snowflake. It is supposed to make the house stronger in the long run if the &#8220;rounded&#8221; side of the wood is facing up.<\/p>\n<p>Although the beam looks very bent at first, once it&#8217;s actually screwed into place it takes the right shape:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1379\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-03-19.02.25-beam-in-place-e1407173561594.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1379\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-03-19.02.25-beam-in-place-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-08-03 19.02.25-beam-in-place\" width=\"426\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking much better now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 18&#8242;, this $150 piece of cedar (that had to be special ordered via Home Depot) is the longest single piece of our house.\u00a0 &#8220;Crowning&#8221; is a new concept for me, which means making a conscious choice about which side of the piece of wood will face up (well, it will face up once the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The longest piece of wood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}