{"id":2301,"date":"2016-09-26T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:42:11","slug":"2301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Family Stories (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was around 10-11 years old, my parents made a shed at the back of the garden, by putting a door and roof on a small space at the back of the garage. This was used to store gardening supplies&#8212;compost, plant pots and the like&#8212;and bottles of the dubious home-made wine and beer that was popular at the time.<\/p>\n<p>One summer day I decided, on a whim, that this needed a label putting on it. So, using a chisel and hammer from the garage, I gouged the words &#8220;TOOL SHED&#8221; into the paint and wood, fairly deeply. Then, realising that the shed wasn&#8217;t used to store tools, I panicked; but a simple solution came to mind. As a result I carved the word &#8220;NOT&#8221; above the word &#8220;TOOL SHED&#8221;, with an asterisk added to retain the symmetry of four letters on each line. As a result, the shed had (and retained for several years) the label:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n*NOT<br \/>\nTOOL<br \/>\nSHED\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and was thus referred to in my family for many years subsequently.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that I am the only person alive who remembers this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was around 10-11 years old, my parents made a shed at the back of the garden, by putting a door and roof on a small space at the back of the garage. This was used to store gardening supplies&#8212;compost, plant pots and the like&#8212;and bottles of the dubious home-made wine and beer that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[40,48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}