{"id":177,"date":"2009-06-22T21:13:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/22\/june_22\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:13:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:13:53","slug":"june_22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/22\/june_22\/","title":{"rendered":"June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the window rebuilding project, I am also undertaking a refurbishing project at the other end of the scale &#8212; stripping the years of paint off our door hardware and refinishing it to something like what it would have looked like new.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/P1000370-1067.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/P1000370-thumb-512x341-1067.jpg\" alt=\"P1000370.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"341\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>I&#8217;m using a mild chemical stripper to remove years of paint, just soaking the parts (except the porcelain knobs) in it overnight.&nbsp; Underneath it all is iron castings.&nbsp; Rather than using the glossy jet black that was the original paint color, I am using a &#8220;hammered bronze&#8221; spray paint that is both forgiving and attractive.&nbsp; And yes, I&#8217;m painting the screw heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the window rebuilding project, I am also undertaking a refurbishing project at the other end of the scale &#8212; stripping the years of paint off our door hardware and refinishing it to something like what it would have looked like new.I&#8217;m using a mild chemical stripper to remove years of paint, just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/22\/june_22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 22&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}