{"id":1420,"date":"2013-02-21T05:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2013-02-21T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:30:43","slug":"mould-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/mould-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Mould update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of perfectly justifiable concern about what I described as <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2013\/hz-apartment\/20130220-093747-s90.jpg.html\">black mould in my bathroom<\/a>. Having taken a closer look, there is more going on there. Here&#8217;s what happened\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>At some point, there was a leak from a pipe, or the apartment above, or something. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/fix-everything-in-china\/\">Chinese Mr. Fixit<\/a> was called. Some of the ceiling was chipped away, and replaced with possibly roofing tar. That&#8217;s the black centre of the mess: it&#8217;s not angry mould.<\/p>\n<p>The surrounding smear is mould from the leak. But, since the whole building is poured concrete, it&#8217;s only in the paint, and cannot possibly be deeper. If I try to clean it, the mess will just aerosolize, with the cheap-ass paint. (A DDP student relates that it comes off with a gentle rub to remove simple dirt: it&#8217;s basically tempra paint from kindergarten.)<\/p>\n<p>So I return to my my original plan of action: live and let live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of perfectly justifiable concern about what I described as black mould in my bathroom. Having taken a closer look, there is more going on there. Here&#8217;s what happened\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 At some point, there was a leak from a pipe, or the apartment above, or something. A Chinese Mr. Fixit was called. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}