{"id":137,"date":"2005-04-24T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-04-24T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T15:50:09","slug":"to-cob-or-not-to-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"To Cob or Not to Cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately we&#8217;ve been looking at cob as a possible building strategy.  Granted this is more long-term thinking since we don&#8217;t have a property yet and won&#8217;t for awhile.  We&#8217;ve been looking at a couple books.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=authorryanmwi-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=1890132349%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/1890132349%25253FSubscriptionId=0VYJWFG3P1CV4QKTYXG2\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1890132349.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=authorryanmwi-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=1890132349%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/1890132349%25253FSubscriptionId=0VYJWFG3P1CV4QKTYXG2\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage<\/a> is a good one that we both really liked.  The pictures do a good job of showing the possibilities while the text is very informative.  It seems like a good option.  We&#8217;re also considering straw bale or some combination of the two.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately we&#8217;ve been looking at cob as a possible building strategy. Granted this is more long-term thinking since we don&#8217;t have a property yet and won&#8217;t for awhile. We&#8217;ve been looking at a couple books. The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage is a good one that we both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xt8g-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}