{"id":160,"date":"2012-11-26T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/nessie\/?p=160"},"modified":"2013-03-12T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:41:46","slug":"the-plumber-and-some-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/the-plumber-and-some-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plumber and some electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-508\" title=\"The Blacksmith\u2019s Shop by Wright - Drawing of Worms  The Picturesque Shop (1862) - Private Collection\" alt=\"The Blacksmith\u2019s Shop by Wright - Drawing of Worms  The Picturesque Shop (1862) - Private Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/nessie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/forgeron.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/forgeron.jpg 352w, \/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/forgeron-211x300.jpg 211w, \/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/forgeron-239x340.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He is a pleasant man of my age whom we do not see very often. I like him and so does the dog. He is reasonably tall, strongly built, somewhat overweight, with muscular legs and an elastic walk &#8211; a footballer in his spare time. His face is round with a frame of straight blond hair. There is a pair of friendly eyes behind glasses.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledges any signs one gives to create verbal contact, in fact making the most out of the humblest opportunity. For example when I remarked one day that the wind was strong, he replied \u201cyes, it is, isn\u2019t it\u201d. He looks at me calmly when I ask questions, then gives detailed answers without lingering unduly.<\/p>\n<p>As I am washing up, he calmly reaches past my arm to check the hot tap.\u00a0 I can hear him sing and whistle from time to time. When he kneels in front of the washing machine, his pullover slips up, revealing a piece of bare back; I have seen it every single time he has been. He never overcharges and leaves us whistling. When he had left last time he called, my daughter cautiously inquired whether I mention any names in my descriptions. The Plumber\u2019s son is in her class. Wouldn\u2019t it be embarrassing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a pleasant man of my age whom we do not see very often. I like him and so does the dog. He is reasonably tall, strongly built, somewhat overweight, with muscular legs and an elastic walk &#8211; a footballer in his spare time. His face is round with a frame of straight blond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nessie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}