{"id":2096,"date":"2013-01-14T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2013-01-11T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:28:55","slug":"a-slate-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/a-slate-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"A slate roof\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Manchester, according to the novelist Jeanette Winterson (in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/nov\/04\/why-be-happy-jeanette-winterson-review \" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWhy be Happy when you can be normal<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a joyous, sad read\u00a0) slate roofs on two up two down terraces are built at 33 degrees \u2013 to get the optimum balance for steady draining and no external or internal water damage that happens if the gradient is too great and the water cascades down the roof in a torrent too fast for the gutters to handle.<\/p>\n<p>Why the attention to roofs\u2026read on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Manchester, according to the novelist Jeanette Winterson (in \u201cWhy be Happy when you can be normal\u201d \u2013 a joyous, sad read\u00a0) slate roofs on two up two down terraces are built at 33 degrees \u2013 to get the optimum balance for steady draining and no external or internal water damage that happens if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,28],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}