{"id":20569,"date":"2018-12-02T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2018-12-02T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T02:42:16","slug":"sunday-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20569","title":{"rendered":"Sunday project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am one of those weirdly old fashioned people who buys books. Not a few books &#8212; lots of books. I even read them.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to this is that books tend to pile up in my apartment. I have far more books than bookshelf space.<\/p>\n<p>I even have LPs and CDs &#8212; lots of LPs and CDs. Like I said, I&#8217;m old fashioned.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the LPs and CDs pile up right alongside the books. So I decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Below is what my Sunday project looked like this morning. Just two neatly stacked boxes, containing the promise of organizational bliss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving1_small.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving1_small.png\" alt=\"shelving1_small\" width=\"450\" height=\"593\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving1_small.png 450w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving1_small-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By early afternoon those tidy packages had been replaced by something a lot messier, as I gradually worked my way through the instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving2_small.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving2_small.png\" alt=\"shelving2_small\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving2_small.png 450w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving2_small-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But by this evening, I was the proud possessor of a six foot wide, eight foot high organizational shelf, with two shelves for CDs, lots of room for LPs, and all the extra shelf space I need to show my books some respect.  Plus a space underneath for clothes bins and more space up on top for knick knacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving3_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving3_small.jpg\" alt=\"shelving3_small\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving3_small.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shelving3_small-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before getting on with the business of organizing stuff, I am taking a day simply to admire my shiny new shelving. I just love the sheer <i>potentialness<\/i> of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am one of those weirdly old fashioned people who buys books. Not a few books &#8212; lots of books. I even read them. The downside to this is that books tend to pile up in my apartment. I have far more books than bookshelf space. I even have LPs and CDs &#8212; lots of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20576,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/20576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}