{"id":1600,"date":"2016-07-16T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T01:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2016-07-16T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T01:54:04","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago we made the decision to leave\u00a0California. \u00a0We sold the mini-house and purchased a McMansion\u00a0in Mansfield, TX on an acre with a pool. \u00a0Best decision we ever made. \u00a0Nothing like tripling how far your dollar goes. \u00a0Unfortunately there are waiting lists for hangars here so the plane is still in CA. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a lead on a nice hangar at Arlington Municipal but have to wait for the owner to make a final decision and\u00a0it could be a few more weeks. \u00a0Not being able to work on the plane is tough as building an airplane is relaxing, challenging and stimulating. \u00a0It&#8217;s a big hole. \u00a0In the mean time I&#8217;ve filled it with mowing the expansive\u00a0lawn (riding mower of course) but that&#8217;s getting old as it&#8217;s not really very challenging\u00a0riding around, cutting grass, drinking a cold beverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4340.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1602\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4340.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4340\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago we made the decision to leave\u00a0California. \u00a0We sold the mini-house and purchased a McMansion\u00a0in Mansfield, TX on an acre with a pool. \u00a0Best decision we ever made. \u00a0Nothing like tripling how far your dollar goes. \u00a0Unfortunately there are waiting lists for hangars here so the plane is still in CA. \u00a0I&#8217;ve <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1600' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}