{"id":2212,"date":"2023-10-15T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2212-how-to-build-a-house.html"},"modified":"2023-10-15T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:09:00","slug":"how-to-build-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2212-how-to-build-a-house.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Build a House"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2876 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/3-_MG_2888.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe spent a couple of days exploring Zaouiat Ahansa and witnessed some of the most beautiful expressions of people and place.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEarly one morning out walking I noticed small groups of boys and men wielding shovels, carrying buckets or pushing wheelbarrows all heading in the same direction. I thought it a little unusual but did not think I\u2019d discover any reason why.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLater in the morning I walked back in the same direction and came across a frenzy of boys and men and shovels and buckets and concrete all working in close quarters on this house together. Somehow in this chaos, a house was being built, everyone seemed happy in their work and no one was getting hurt doing it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe scene was so unexpected and so surprising and so delightful. Yet another reason why I love Morocco.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Morocco #ZaouiatAhansa #highatlas #mountains #construction #teams #manpower #manuallabor #building #blackandwhite<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a couple of days exploring Zaouiat Ahansa and witnessed some of the most beautiful expressions of people and place. Early one morning out walking I noticed small groups of boys and men wielding shovels, carrying buckets or pushing wheelbarrows all heading in the same direction. I thought it a little unusual but did &#8230; <a title=\"How to Build a House\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2212-how-to-build-a-house.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Build a House\">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-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}