{"id":64,"date":"2008-06-20T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T05:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-08-18T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:30:15","slug":"end-of-spring-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/06\/20\/end-of-spring-update\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Spring Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been about two months since I decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/04\/21\/no-sale\/\">back out of a not-quite-perfect property<\/a>, and in the interim, the market seems to have come to a complete stop.  I haven&#8217;t seen anything close to a good fit, and although I swung away from the desire to do extensive remodeling or building after the last property, I am now swinging back towards it, considering that 99% of houses that I see come on the market are painfully boring craftsman homes or super-old brick Tudors or Cape Cods.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not feeling too optimistic right now, but on the bright side, window-shopping for houses is a lot of fun and I&#8217;d hate to have already picked one out only to find a better one come on the market as the summer selling season kicked in.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to search and wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been about two months since I decided to back out of a not-quite-perfect property, and in the interim, the market seems to have come to a complete stop. I haven&#8217;t seen anything close to a good fit, and although I swung away from the desire to do extensive remodeling or building after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}