{"id":108,"date":"2014-04-17T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:19:17","slug":"almost-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/almost-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this week\u2019s Throwback comes an old photo of a house in Scottsdale my family had put a deposit on, but then backed out of. It was 1979 and we were outgrowing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190501182600\/http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/2014\/04\/10\/you-cant-go-home-again-except-now-you-can\/\">our modest Hallcraft house<\/a>, so we fixed our sights on a new subdivision a few miles north. The house had bedrooms for all of us, plus another to spare, but after mulling it over and contemplating the disruption of the move (we\u2019d have to change schools), we decided to stay put. Also at the time there was a horse ranch behind the house, and my mom feared it would be developed. She was right \u2013 it was developed into another subdivision a few years later. Fortunately the deposit was refundable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the snapshot of the newly completed house in 1979, taken with&nbsp;my 126 camera:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"971\" src=\"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane-940x971.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane-940x971.jpg 940w, https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026and lo and behold, it is currently for sale. Here is the current marketing photo from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190501182600\/http:\/\/www.realtor.com\/realestateandhomes-detail\/8612-N-Timberlane-Dr_Scottsdale_AZ_85258_M24428-91810?row=1\">real estate listing<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane_forsale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" src=\"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane_forsale-940x626.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane_forsale-940x626.jpg 940w, https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane_forsale-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timberlane_forsale.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s Throwback comes an old photo of a house in Scottsdale my family had put a deposit on, but then backed out of. It was 1979 and we were outgrowing&nbsp;our modest Hallcraft house, so we fixed our sights on a new subdivision a few miles north. The house had bedrooms for all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-throwback-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}