{"id":8705,"date":"2007-03-26T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/screen-door\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:18","slug":"screen-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/screen-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6691-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6691-scaled.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Front door screen retainer.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are a few times each year which sticks in my mind. The first time the furnace has to be turned on (and the accompanying burnt dust smell). The first snowfall which makes it too difficult to go somewhere. The first day so hot that one must retreat to the cold of the basement.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up I remember this day as the time when my dad (and eventually I) would open my bedroom window, slide the glass panes out of the way, and slide the screen into place. That was also the amazing day where there would be nothing in the window and I could lean out, looking straight down at the ground. This was also the day when my dad would get the screens for the front and side storm doors out of the rafters of the garage, replace the screen material (if needed), remove the glass from the doors, and replace them with screens.<\/p>\n<p>After this point all the doors and windows could be opened and the finally-warm Michigan wind would blow through, airing out the house from months of being closed up against the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Today is that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few times each year which sticks in my mind. The first time the furnace has to be turned on (and the accompanying burnt dust smell). The first snowfall which makes it too difficult to go somewhere. The first day so hot that one must retreat to the cold of the basement. Growing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}