{"id":2165,"date":"2009-04-30T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:06:51","slug":"the-van-men-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"The van men cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Against all the odds, the fabled \u201cLost Shed of Olde Hinckley Town\u201d was indeed delivered here yesterday. Things were looking up, and I thought that the situation had been resolved.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sadly, it wasn't to be.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This morning I went out to begin assembling the thing, but the exercise was short-lived after I had one of those \"WTF?\" moments. The tools were packed away again and I arrived at the store a few minutes later. Rather foolishly, the staff had neglected to don their flak-jackets...<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">Right, Sir, what can we do for you?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Well, you could start by not sending me a shed with a skewed plain end that's clearly been assembled by feckin' morons and then quality-checked by Ray Charles!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">Oh. Oh dear. How bad is it?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astro\/Astrokit\/934e56c5d04ca798e93d8899dec2db-575548756-O-1000x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Astro\/Astrokit\/93a9e99ae4e19867e3e5ca5a49cfc6-575558155-O-1000x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We went into the back yard and found another 7x7 strapped up as a bundle, as delivered from the supplier. I helped the assistant to take the required panel from the bundle, and set it aside on a trolley, ready to be sent to me.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The replacement panel will be here <em>ma\u00f1ana<\/em>, allegedly.<\/p><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Against all the odds, the fabled \u201cLost Shed of Olde Hinckley Town\u201d was indeed delivered here yesterday. Things were looking up, and I thought that the situation had been resolved. Sadly, it wasn't to be. This morning I went out to begin assembling the thing, but the exercise was short-lived after I had one of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rant-mode","tag-shed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/93a9e99ae4e19867e3e5ca5a49cfc650.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18084,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/18084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}