{"id":23591,"date":"2016-09-28T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2016-09-28T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:24:00","slug":"dirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/dirk\/","title":{"rendered":"DIRK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>There was<\/strong><\/span> mold on the window sill and black spots on the bathroom ceiling, probably because\u00a0the tenant never opened the window to her bathroom. She called the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, and the county called the city, and the city told me to get rid of the mold, preferably by knocking down every wall in the bathroom and replacing them with drywall. Destroy a village. I called a back-up drywall guy, who said he&#8217;d there Monday. \u201cWhat if you\u2019re not there?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I\u2019ll be in the morgue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t show.\u00a0I called McNeeley, who said he could be there in 10 days. No thanks.\u00a0(My main guy was busy.)\u00a0I found Dirk on Craigslist. Not such a great name, but he showed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cYou seem<\/strong><\/span> like a nice guy,\u201d I said, \u201cbut you never know with Craigslist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He painted over the mold. No new drywall. I used Dirk a season then he disappeared. I never got entirely comfortable with his name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mold-be-gone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mold-be-gone-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"mold be gone\" width=\"243\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mold-be-gone-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mold-be-gone.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was mold on the window sill and black spots on the bathroom ceiling, probably because\u00a0the tenant never opened the window to her bathroom. She called the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, and the county called the city, and the city told me to get rid of the mold, preferably by knocking down every wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24702,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}