{"id":34,"date":"2006-05-23T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/can-nothing-be-easy\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T02:53:25","slug":"can-nothing-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/can-nothing-be-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can nothing be easy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Kelly and Paul for working out the final details of our new place.  I was right: she didn&#8217;t really know that I wasn&#8217;t in Vancouver.  After some explaining, they managed to convince her that I was alright and she took my deposit.<\/p>\n<p>My old landlord had an in with movers and offered to get me a good quote.  He emailed today: $2600 for moving and packing, $1300 for moving only.<\/p>\n<p>Considering we paid $400 when we moved into that place, I don&#8217;t really think $1300 for the move only counts as a &#8220;good&#8221; quote.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I could pay anybody I know $1000 to pack everything I own into boxes, and the same company $400 to move it four blocks.  Look, I just cut the price in half.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what would the packing be?  Maybe two days work (alone) if you had all the boxes and stuff?<\/p>\n<p>I have asked for a couple of other quotes online.  We&#8217;ll see.  Maybe I&#8217;ll end up packing everything myself.  [shakes fist again]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Kelly and Paul for working out the final details of our new place. I was right: she didn&#8217;t really know that I wasn&#8217;t in Vancouver. After some explaining, they managed to convince her that I was alright and she took my deposit. My old landlord had an in with movers and offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}