{"id":6,"date":"2004-07-26T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T04:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:19:22","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><quote><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a green one and a pink one<br \/>\nAnd a blue one and a yellow one<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re all made out of ticky-tacky<br \/>\nAnd they all look just the same<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n  &#8212; &#8220;Little Boxes&#8221;  Words and music by Malvina Reynolds.<br \/>\n<\/quote><\/p>\n<p>I had just gotten back from a business trip when Gigi announced that<br \/>\nshe had &#8220;made a decision&#8221;, as she is known to do. She had decided that<br \/>\nwe should look into taking a trip out to Utah to see about buying or building<br \/>\na get-away home.<\/p>\n<p>It made perfect sense to me. We had been spending the last two years exploring the<br \/>\nborderline psychotic world that the inhabitants call &#8220;Southern California Real Estate&#8221;,<br \/>\nwith its $700,000.00 closets and garish MacMansions. We have often wondered just<br \/>\nwhat the hell all the people that can afford these things actually <strong>do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> The simple fact is that we can&#8217;t afford to buy our first home here, so following simple<br \/>\nAlice-in-Wonderland logic, we might as well start out by buying our second home first,<br \/>\nand then working our way up to a first home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Niles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they&#8217;re all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same &#8212; &#8220;Little Boxes&#8221; Words and music by Malvina Reynolds. I had just gotten back from a business trip when Gigi announced that she had &#8220;made a decision&#8221;, as she is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-highlights","category-our-utah-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}