{"id":1161,"date":"2006-10-01T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:03:34","slug":"the-outside-makes-its-way-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1161\/the-outside-makes-its-way-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The outside makes its way in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rat population out back of the apartment building seems to have exploded.  The rats have even eaten away the edges of the lids of the garbage bins&#8230;and now we have critters in the walls.  Whatever they are I don&#8217;t know because they thus far remain in the walls and I can&#8217;t see them.  But something&#8217;s in there.  In the bathroom.  It was wrecking havoc scratch scratch scratch in the corner of the ceiling the other day, and I heard it banging around last night in the wall behind the sink.  Disconcerting when you&#8217;re brushing your teeth and a couple feet away from you, inside the wall, is something very loudly making its way through.<\/p>\n<p>Especially disturbing is that the windowsill in the bathroom is now filled with gray sawdust like shavings and they are even in the bathtub this morning&#8230;apparently fallen from where the ceiling isn&#8217;t quite flush with the wall?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of freaked out about it this morning. Because last night when I went into the bathroom at one point, the shower curtain rustled.<\/p>\n<p>The landlord&#8217;s supposed to be dropping by tomorrow to work on the kitchen sink.  I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll leave the shavings on the sill for him to see.  He&#8217;s got to somehow take care of this.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m freaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rat population out back of the apartment building seems to have exploded. The rats have even eaten away the edges of the lids of the garbage bins&#8230;and now we have critters in the walls. Whatever they are I don&#8217;t know because they thus far remain in the walls and I can&#8217;t see them. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,73],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-this-old-apartment-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}