{"id":563,"date":"2011-09-11T21:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2011-09-12T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:53:19","slug":"new-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/563\/personal\/new-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"new lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told my husband a while back that I&#8217;d like to string some Christmas lights over our deck in the backyard. \u00a0I envisioned buying a couple of strings of lights at Target and maybe stapling them up in a couple spots to secure them. \u00a0But that&#8217;s not his way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"new lights by shannonblue, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shannonpix\/6139107078\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6174\/6139107078_d6151502d0.jpg\" alt=\"new lights\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He envisioned something far better, far more sturdy and able to withstand the elements. \u00a0First he built a heavy wood frame to rim the outside of our deck. \u00a0Then we strung heavy duty cable in a zig-zag pattern that had been carefully calculated. \u00a0Then hanging off the cable &#8211; the lights! \u00a0These are industrial hanging bulbs, the kind you see at outdoor restaurants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"new lights by shannonblue, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shannonpix\/6138530011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6061\/6138530011_88fe9a1bee.jpg\" alt=\"new lights\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result is beautiful. \u00a0We&#8217;ve eaten outside most nights since the project was done. \u00a0I hope summer holds out a bit longer so we can continue to enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Untitled by shannonblue, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shannonpix\/6138593291\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6078\/6138593291_a801898cf9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told my husband a while back that I&#8217;d like to string some Christmas lights over our deck in the backyard. \u00a0I envisioned buying a couple of strings of lights at Target and maybe stapling them up in a couple spots to secure them. \u00a0But that&#8217;s not his way. He envisioned something far better, far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[76,80],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-home","tag-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}