{"id":5498,"date":"2017-02-04T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2017-02-04T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T01:16:18","slug":"more-on-burning-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5498","title":{"rendered":"More on Burning Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?attachment_id=5491\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5491\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5491\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159-765x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C857\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159.jpg?resize=765%2C1024 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159.jpg?resize=768%2C1028 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/woodpile-e1486254723159.jpg?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This winter, I&#8217;ve been heating my house primarily by my new wood stove. My oil furnace is so ancient, it was a finalist (alas &#8211; not the winner!) in an &#8216;oldest furnace&#8217; contest run by a local oil company. First prize was free installation of a new furnace. Mine is as old as I am but still was beat out by an even more impressive monster in someone&#8217;s basement.<\/p>\n<p>While inefficient, my oil furnace is reliable and a new one would cost more than I want to go into debt for. Instead I spent half as much on a wood stove and feel good relying a little less on the fuel-oil roller coaster.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who lets me have wood for free so every few weeks, I load up my Subaru. I like the exercise of carrying and stacking. Nights, I savor the gulp of frigid air when stepping out onto the porch to retrieve another log then back into the warmth to stoke the flames. The gentle lapping sounds and flickering glow make for sweet company. The rising warmth slowly sweeps upstairs so even my bedroom is toasty by time I climb between the sheets to sleep. The sheets I dry on my clothesline also featured in the photo above. Just call me pioneer woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, I&#8217;ve been heating my house primarily by my new wood stove. My oil furnace is so ancient, it was a finalist (alas &#8211; not the winner!) in an &#8216;oldest furnace&#8217; contest run by a local oil company. First prize was free installation of a new furnace. Mine is as old as I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Burning Wood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[12,71,266],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal-musings","tag-nature","tag-winter","tag-woodstove"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-1qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}