{"id":1236,"date":"2008-12-26T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2014-02-16T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T18:27:37","slug":"karls-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/12\/karls-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl&#8217;s dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSnow500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSnow500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>hmmm&#8230;.there is a perfectly wonderful dog bed on the front porch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlBed500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlBed500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I shovel off part of the roof.  The additions to the original part of the house did not include new roof trusses.  The front part of the roof and particularly the porch roof is extremely flat.  Two problems &#8211; the bathroom vent gets buried quickly and the snow load on the porch roof can get ugly fast.  It is much easier to push off 3-6-8 inches of light fluffy snow as it comes down than to dig out a foot or more of heavy compacted snow&#8230;ask me how I know this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneRoof500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneRoof500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The roof dump interferes with Karl&#8217;s &#8220;view&#8221; of his yard.  What is a dog to do?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSings500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSings500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSingsB500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneKarlSingsB500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singing apparently helps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneWalk500333.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SceneWalk500333.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least the heated water bowl works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hmmm&#8230;.there is a perfectly wonderful dog bed on the front porch&#8230; Oh&#8230; I shovel off part of the roof. The additions to the original part of the house did not include new roof trusses. The front part of the roof and particularly the porch roof is extremely flat. Two problems &#8211; the bathroom vent gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-pets","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14259,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/14259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}