{"id":55,"date":"2013-02-20T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-10-08T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T01:40:14","slug":"move-build-or-renovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Move, Build, or Renovate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our four wonderful girls continue to grow, we find our house getting smaller and smaller. \u00a0We are considering three options: \u00a0buy a house in Decatur, tear down our duplex and build on the lot, or renovate our current home. \u00a0We have pretty much ruled out building on the duplex lot.<\/p>\n<p>Today the option to renovate got a big boost with the results of the Museum School lottery. \u00a0Ellie got into their sixth grade class and Ana is first on the waiting list for the fourth grade.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #1462ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ana_hana_dig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" style=\"border-color: #bbbbbb; background-color: #eeeeee;\" alt=\"ana_hana_dig\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ana_hana_dig.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ana_hana_dig.jpg 374w, https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ana_hana_dig-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture of Ana, her friend, Hana, and the hole they dug together in our backyard\u00a0has nothing to do with any of this. \u00a0Except maybe this will turn out to be the beginning of the excavation of our new basement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our four wonderful girls continue to grow, we find our house getting smaller and smaller. \u00a0We are considering three options: \u00a0buy a house in Decatur, tear down our duplex and build on the lot, or renovate our current home. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}