{"id":21,"date":"2008-01-05T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:56:01","slug":"05012008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/05012008\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/winter-trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12 size-full\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/winter-trees-small.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Trees in early April\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\"><\/a>One of my favourite aspects of visiting the US is the common use of wood fires for heating. While using wood for heating doesn&#8217;t provide the instant availability and convenience of a gas fire or electric heater, it is immensely satisfying to start a fire with nothing but newspaper and logs. The hard to regulate heat, and indeed the smoke, are all part of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to have a wood fire in my own home. The first challenge is, of course, having a home of my own to start with, but a close second is the UK&#8217;s <a title=\"UK Smoke Control Areas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uksmokecontrolareas.co.uk\/index.php\">Clean Air acts<\/a> that affects much of the country. There is however some hope. Various wood burning stoves have been tested and are <a title=\"Appliances exempt from UK clean air acts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uksmokecontrolareas.co.uk\/appliances.php\">exempt<\/a> from the restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I could justify the cost of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stovesonline.co.uk\/lining_a_chimney.html\">getting a chimney lined<\/a>, buying a stove (\u00a3800 to \u00a32000 depending on model) and installing it I don&#8217;t know. The bigger question at this point is what living with a wood stove would be like. Would it be sufficiently close to the open fire to be worth doing, or could I settle for going outside and using a fire pit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite aspects of visiting the US is the common use of wood fires for heating. While using wood for heating doesn&#8217;t provide the instant availability and convenience of a gas fire or electric heater, it is immensely satisfying to start a fire with nothing but newspaper and logs. The hard to regulate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}