{"id":110,"date":"2011-10-02T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2011-10-02T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:56:45","slug":"our-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Our Front Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"The door to our apartment\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-120-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-120-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-120-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s the exterior door to our apartment.\u00a0 Note that we are &#8220;Foreign Experts.&#8221;\u00a0 That is what the words above the door say in English. \u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;re on the first floor, to the left of this door.\u00a0 You can see some pillows airing on the balcony.\u00a0 This green door is made of iron bars and is locked by an electronic magnet.\u00a0 At first I felt like I was in a cage, since all the windows are barred also.\u00a0 I wondered, in a fire or earthquake, when the power is out, how will we escape?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the old Girl Scout training again, always be prepared. Dear Husband\u00a0 bought a wrench to use in case of emergency, to loosen the bolts that hold the iron bars in place.\u00a0 Apparently, there are no emergencies here.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the power was out, and that is when I learned that the magnet in the lock isn&#8217;t a magnet when the power is off.\u00a0 So, no worries, if the power is off, just push that iron door open.\u00a0 What&#8217;s all that stuff on the ground?\u00a0\u00a0 Stuff that was on the balcony.\u00a0 We put it out in hopes it would disappear, and some of it has, but the old interior door remains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps we could make a picnic table from it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the exterior door to our apartment.\u00a0 Note that we are &#8220;Foreign Experts.&#8221;\u00a0 That is what the words above the door say in English. \u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;re on the first floor, to the left of this door.\u00a0 You can see some pillows airing on the balcony.\u00a0 This green door is made of iron bars and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}