{"id":10901,"date":"2007-10-24T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/24\/hell-froze-over\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T14:00:21","slug":"hell-froze-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/24\/hell-froze-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell froze over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two weeks, my apartment is getting painted twice. First in the color the landlord wants, and the second time in the palette I actually want.<\/p>\n<p>Let me step back, because this circuitous route to a more appealing abode can make sense. At least I hope it might. About ten months ago, the landlord assented after seven years he made enough cash off my occupancy to throw a little love back. He redid my bathroom from the floor up, and then promised fresh paint for the entire apartment. The bathroom project wrapped in August; that left Project Color Streak.He set a day: November 1, 2007. He hired someone to fill in holes and prep the walls. He also hired a crew to paint the apartment. He bought lots of paint.<\/p>\n<p>There was one catch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all Navajo white. He will only paint the place in Navajo white. He loves the color. The same fricking shade I&#8217;ve been looking at for nearly eight years. Feh. I offered to paint the apartment myself and eat the cost of paint and time, and he refused. I offered to buy the colors I wanted and let his crew have at it. He also refused. The only way he will paint the apartment is with his crew, and in his goddamn Navajo white.<\/p>\n<p>Then came a moment of clarity. I asked if I could paint over his paint. He agreed.<\/p>\n<p>So the moment his precious coats of Navajo white dries, out come a fresh set of rollers and a whole new world of color. Rich saturated hues like Chili pepper and Thornton Sage. Now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/swatch.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two weeks, my apartment is getting painted twice. First in the color the landlord wants, and the second time in the palette I actually want. Let me step back, because this circuitous route to a more appealing abode can make sense. At least I hope it might. About ten months ago, the landlord assented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}