{"id":2820,"date":"2010-05-05T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T00:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/homesteading-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T00:41:06","slug":"homesteading-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/homesteading-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesteading in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/homestead.jpg' title='homestead.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/homestead.thumbnail.jpg' alt='homestead.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>Forging a lifestyle change, we engaged a real estate broker in Arizona last week to start negotiating with a contractor to build a home for us. Today, we met with the broker, and started the process. <\/p>\n<p>We went to a model with a similar floor plan to the home we&#8217;re considering. We liked what we saw &#8211; a lot. After that, we went to the actual site where the new home is to be constructed. The clickable image is of yours truly discussing options, firearms and the new Arizona laws regarding illegal immigrants with our broker on the lot where the house will be constructed &#8211; that&#8217;s me in the aloha shirt and panama hat. It&#8217;s nice to work with a businessman on the same page with us.<\/p>\n<p>We will meet with the contractor tomorrow to begin customizing the new digs.<\/p>\n<p>As for the house in the <s>Golden<\/s> Tarnished State, we will be making trips back there (after establishing residence here). We will have to dispose of our vast accumulation of <em>stuff<\/em> and to get the house on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I am a native Californian, I qualify for honorary Arizona naturalization by virtue of being married to Verna, a native Arizonan. I am truly blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forging a lifestyle change, we engaged a real estate broker in Arizona last week to start negotiating with a contractor to build a home for us.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}