{"id":1695,"date":"2017-12-01T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1695-sacred-fixer-upperer.html"},"modified":"2017-12-01T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:20:20","slug":"sacred-fixer-upperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1695-sacred-fixer-upperer.html","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Fixer Upperer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2340 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1527-_MG_1804.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFixer upperer, renovator&#8217;s delight, builder&#8217;s hobby home. These are all common expressions for a place that needs an extra dose of something special to restore or keep it&#8217;s original charm and glory.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nKylemore Abbey, county Galway, ticks all those boxes but keeping it splendid in all it&#8217;s glory might just demand a little more effort that your average homemaker can muster.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps this is exactly how the wealthy industrialist Dr. Mitchell Henry felt when he abandoned the family home he built and headed back to his native England.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Benedictine nuns nuns who purchased the residence in the early 1900&#8217;s clearly have help from a higher power and to this day the abbey is being continually renewed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Sacred Fixer Upperer&#8217;, 1\/125 f\/8 ISO160 200mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixer upperer, renovator&#8217;s delight, builder&#8217;s hobby home. These are all common expressions for a place that needs an extra dose of something special to restore or keep it&#8217;s original charm and glory. Kylemore Abbey, county Galway, ticks all those boxes but keeping it splendid in all it&#8217;s glory might just demand a little more effort &#8230; <a title=\"Sacred Fixer Upperer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1695-sacred-fixer-upperer.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sacred Fixer Upperer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}