{"id":274,"date":"2007-06-08T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","slug":"sold-on-a-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/274","title":{"rendered":"Sold on a flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve picked up the keys to my new flat.  It&#8217;s a short term got-to-get-out-and-take-control-of-my-life rental choice, so it&#8217;s bright, warm and clean.  Those were the minimum requirements for enabling me to enjoy my life enough to feel confident about getting out and chasing down contracts, or potentially a new job.  The bedrooms are small, but I&#8217;ll use one only for sleep and the other as a study so that&#8217;s not really an issue.  The kitchen is big enough.  There&#8217;s room for a small dining table and a full theatre in the living room.  Of course, all of that is currently locked up in storage but I&#8217;m only days away from having my old life back.<\/p>\n<p>The big selling point on the place, wasn&#8217;t on my list of requirements.  When I walked in, I looked straight to the balcony and saw a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets on the railing.  Yesterday, when I went back to start moving in, there were two pairs huddling out of the rain.  I don&#8217;t have a bird tray in storage, but it will be the first thing I buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve picked up the keys to my new flat. It&#8217;s a short term got-to-get-out-and-take-control-of-my-life rental choice, so it&#8217;s bright, warm and clean. Those were the minimum requirements for enabling me to enjoy my life enough to feel confident about getting out and chasing down contracts, or potentially a new job. The bedrooms are small, but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/274\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sold on a flat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}