{"id":3677,"date":"2022-01-19T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:25:18","slug":"the-decons-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/19\/the-decons-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decon&#8217;s Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it&#8217;s been almost 20 years in the making but it&#8217;s done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_3209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3209.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3209-300x235.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3209-150x117.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>The Decon&#8217;s Bench<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project started as a 50th birthday present for Shirley. Somehow it got derailed many times over the years. I&#8217;d build a part of it and then park it away in the corner of the shop. You&#8217;d think it would have been completed last year with the lockdowns and all the time at home and while it did get some attention it wasn&#8217;t until the end of 2021 and January 2022 that the push was on for completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what is a Decon&#8217;s Bench? There seems to be a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/christianity.stackexchange.com\/questions\/75164\/where-did-the-idea-of-deacons-benches-come-from-and-what-are-they-for\" target=\"_blank\">mixed opinion<\/a> on the origin and purpose but it seems that a bench with a storage space under the seat is common. Ours has a flip up lid under the seat cushion with a large storage area underneath. For us it&#8217;s a place to sit when you&#8217;re putting on your shoes or boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_2483.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2483.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2483-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2483-113x150.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>A happy user! ?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been almost 20 years in the making but it&#8217;s done! The project started as a 50th birthday present for Shirley. Somehow it got derailed many times over the years. I&#8217;d build a part of it and then park it away in the corner of the shop. You&#8217;d think it would have been completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-bench"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3209.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}