{"id":25,"date":"2011-01-13T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-03-01T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:47:51","slug":"during-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"During and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/During1.jpg?a=19\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Picture of dining room filled with boxes<\/em><\/div>\n<p>Last  week was a big one for us down-sizing empty-nesters.\u00a0\u00a0We were knee-deep  in boxes and running from room to room packing away the very last bits  of memorabilia and furniture.\u00a0 I thought you might like to see a little  bit of the chaos.\u00a0 These following pictures are the boxes as they\u00a0formed  mini-mountains throughout our house.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/During2.jpg?a=52\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Another view of the dining room<\/em><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/During3.jpg?a=26\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Library filled with boxes<\/em><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/During4.jpg?a=63\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Kitchen piled high.\u00a0 You can see my gumballs from our vintage gumball machine on the counter.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>After  the storm came some calm.\u00a0 Everything was cleared out, and all of the  rooms, cabinets, drawers, and closets were completely clean and  pristine.\u00a0 The following pictures are bitter-sweet for me because they  show how our home of 16 years looked as I walked through it for the last  time.\u00a0 It was a strange day for me.\u00a0 I closed the door on our happy  home on the same day that I closed the door on a happy decade of my life  and turned the big 6 &#8211; 0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/Empty1.jpg?a=87\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Empty\u00a0family room<\/em><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/Empty2.jpg?a=75\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Empty dining room)<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/4\/8\/2\/6\/7\/284967-276284\/empty4.jpg?a=41\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>View from front door into the house.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture of dining room filled with boxes Last week was a big one for us down-sizing empty-nesters.\u00a0\u00a0We were knee-deep in boxes and running from room to room packing away the very last bits of memorabilia and furniture.\u00a0 I thought you might like to see a little bit of the chaos.\u00a0 These following pictures are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}