{"id":9797,"date":"2013-10-29T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2013-10-29T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:02:00","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-the-house-on-almond-avenue-by-greg-gnesios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-house-on-almond-avenue-by-greg-gnesios\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) The House on Almond Avenue\u2026 by Greg Gnesios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The little house on Almond Avenue was a quiet and welcome sanctuary when I most needed one.\u00a0 I rented it when I first moved to Redding, California in 1988 coming off the heels of an acrimonious divorce and a failed love affair.\u00a0 Clinging to a hillside on the west end of town, the 700\u2019 square foot bungalow had probably seen better days in a neighborhood now shabby around the edges.\u00a0 But it boasted a full basement where I could set up a darkroom, a roomy rear deck with a great view of Mount Lassen to the east, and a chunk of open space across the street marking the flyway of Benton Air Field.<br \/>\nIt had been built in 1938 by a man who, like hundreds of other men at the time, was working to complete the nearby Shasta Dam.\u00a0 Its simple clapboard construction housed two small bedrooms, a narrow kitchen with a breakfast nook, a living room with a fireplace, and a bathroom so tiny that one could barely avoid stepping into the toilet bowl when exiting the shower.\u00a0 The detached one-car garage had long ago been converted into a small studio apartment which I eventually sublet to a single mom.\u00a0 For a now-single park ranger it was a perfect setup&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Greg&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/pointblank-the-house-on-almond-avenue-by-greg-gnesios\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9798\" alt=\"gnesios4-300x208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gnesios4-300x208.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/pointblank-the-house-on-almond-avenue-by-greg-gnesios\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/pointblank-the-house-on-almond-avenue-by-greg-gnesios\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;The little house on Almond Avenue was a quiet and welcome sanctuary when I most needed one.\u00a0 I rented it when I first moved to Redding, California in 1988 coming off the heels of an acrimonious divorce and a failed love affair.\u00a0 Clinging to a hillside on the west end of town, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10289,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}