{"id":137,"date":"2005-11-13T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T04:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-11-13T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T04:32:35","slug":"building-a-desk-pt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Building a desk &#8211; PT I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a false start last weekend, I&#8217;ve finally built the first section of my &#8220;ultimate desk&#8221;.  I was planning to cut the wood myself, but ended up paying a bit more to have the hardware store cut it (that ended up being a VERY wise decision, it probably saved me 3+ hours and I can still count to 10 using just my fingers).  Ultimately this will be a standing-height, 3-section, L-shaped desk that I hope will cost well under $500 when all is said and done.  I&#8217;m hoping to improve my limited wood-working skills as I go&#8230; so the third section should be much better than the first \ud83d\ude42  I just need to put some edges on it, stain it and build the last two sections! (BTW &#8211; Those square sections in the front will ultimately be triangles, I just ran out of time and was eager to test drive it.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/photos\/Desk_Section1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the desk.\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a false start last weekend, I&#8217;ve finally built the first section of my &#8220;ultimate desk&#8221;. I was planning to cut the wood myself, but ended up paying a bit more to have the hardware store cut it (that ended up being a VERY wise decision, it probably saved me 3+ hours and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}