{"id":9029,"date":"2012-11-28T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:45:41","slug":"drain-the-spigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/drain-the-spigots\/","title":{"rendered":"Drain the Spigots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spigot.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor Water Spigot\" title=\"Outdoor Water Spigot\" width=\"408\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9032\" align=right hspace=10 srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spigot.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spigot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spigot-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/>Are you done using water outside your home for the season?  <\/p>\n<p>If so, then it&#8217;s time to turn off and drain the supply line to the outdoor spigots.  It&#8217;s a quick task and could help you avoid a serious headache once it really starts to get cold at night.  <\/p>\n<p>The alternative is risking frozen pipes.  And nobody likes frozen pipes.  They make a really big mess, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/my-saturday-showing-debacle\/\">sort of like this<\/a>.  Or maybe you&#8217;ll get lucky and only have mold growing in your walls and basement.  Yuck.<\/p>\n<p>Just take the five minutes and shut off the water to the hose bibs outside.  Please.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you done using water outside your home for the season? If so, then it&#8217;s time to turn off and drain the supply line to the outdoor spigots. It&#8217;s a quick task and could help you avoid a serious headache once it really starts to get cold at night. The alternative is risking frozen pipes. And nobody likes frozen pipes. They make a really big mess, sort of like this. Or maybe you&#8217;ll get lucky<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/drain-the-spigots\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1579],"tags":[2329,3625,3626,2892,3054],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-maintenance","tag-hose","tag-hose-bib","tag-outside","tag-spigot","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}