{"id":1862,"date":"2021-07-26T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:33:30","slug":"handyman-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"Handyman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/handyman-image-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/handyman-image-06-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/handyman-image-06-770x1024.jpg 770w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/handyman-image-06-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/handyman-image-06.jpg 1543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Darryl woke up with that feeling again \u2013 impossible to describe but all too familiar at this point. He kept his eyes closed for a while longer, savoring the dream he was having about his old, normal life\u2026before all the changes\u2026before every morning became a horror show, wondering if he would find another growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did his best to soothe his anxiety, tried to make lemonade out of the lemons that seemed to be smothering him.&nbsp; After all, how could yet another, extra hand possibly be all that bad for a skilled craftsman who worked with his hands?&nbsp; Each one seemed to have all his talent and strength.&nbsp; His productivity tripled, he was making money hand-over-fist (no pun intended) and for the first time in his life, people found him kinda interesting\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\u2026waking up every few days with another fully formed hand growing out of some empty patch of his flesh was really starting to effect his sanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>***This was a tough image to pull out of John\u2019s thick head but with an iron skillet and a power drill\u00a0I finally managed it (long story) and it lead to a new book project called \u201cBody-Oddies\u201d which is finally done and off to the printer.\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Darryl woke up with that feeling again \u2013 impossible to describe but all too familiar at this point. He kept his eyes closed for a while longer, savoring the dream he was having about his old, normal life\u2026before all the changes\u2026before every morning became a horror show, wondering if he would find another growth. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handyman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,241,124],"tags":[210,105,248,37,99,297,298,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}