{"id":1771,"date":"2010-05-03T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2010-05-02T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T03:38:59","slug":"my-waterpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"My Waterpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s almost summer&#8230;and you can&#8217;t stay inside writing about routers allllll the time \ud83d\ude09  So my boys and I are going to build our own water park in the backyard.  We started with some supplies.  Gavin and I went to the hardware store today and picked up some junk:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1772\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05669.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05669\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05669.jpg 360w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05669-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a few sticks of 3\/4\\<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1773\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05670.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05670\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05670.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05670-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a bag-o-fittings, valves and possibly a sprinkler head!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>The plan is to attach all of the piping to the play structure in the back yard&#8230;here&#8217;s a shot of it.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1774\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05668.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05668\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05668.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC05668-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That's right fool, I made those stairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the diagram I used for preplanning:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1775\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/waterpark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/waterpark.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"waterpark\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/waterpark.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/waterpark-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visio 4 life!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Using the diagram above, we are going to have a dump bucket (fills with water and tips over, rinse and repeat), drip pipe that sprays water down, sprinkler head that sprays down the swing, a water canon on top that can be aimed and last a mister to keep us cool while watching the kiddos.  I&#8217;ll post updates as we build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s almost summer&#8230;and you can&#8217;t stay inside writing about routers allllll the time \ud83d\ude09 So my boys and I are going to build\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}