{"id":579,"date":"2010-09-21T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:06:02","slug":"caulking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/caulking\/","title":{"rendered":"caulking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was kind of afraid of caulking &#8211; maybe because I&#8217;d never caulked before, maybe because if you read instructions online, they all talk about how hard silicone caulk is to control, maybe just because it&#8217;s nearly the last thing I have to do and I didn&#8217;t want to mess up something this late. But it turns out, caulking isn&#8217;t hard. Like, at all. Taping every seam you want to caulk is incredibly mind-numbing, but it&#8217;s not hard, and then all you have to do is run the caulk bead and smooth it out with a rubbing-alcohol-coated finger, then peel up the tape immediately. Voila, perfect straight caulk lines. I did most of the seams tonight, and I&#8217;m planning on doing the rest tomorrow. Yay for caulk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was kind of afraid of caulking &#8211; maybe because I&#8217;d never caulked before, maybe because if you read instructions online, they all talk about how hard silicone caulk is to control, maybe just because it&#8217;s nearly the last thing I have to do and I didn&#8217;t want to mess up something this late. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}