{"id":511,"date":"2006-05-09T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T22:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2006-05-09T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T22:40:40","slug":"this-is-all-a-bit-new-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"This is all a bit new to me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve started looking for a property to purchase. I&#8217;ve never done this before, so it&#8217;s all a bit new to me. I&#8217;ve talked with a lender about a mortgage, found out how much I can borrow and I had a look around some flats last night.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I discussed the ins and outs of the property markets with many friends and have a much better idea about what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion this could be long and protracted, and possibly slightly stressful. I&#8217;ve also decided that houses converted into multiple flats is not for me, purpose built flats &#8211; either small blocks or maisonettes &#8211; are the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I spent this evening away from the property market, with a violin lesson and a few frames of snooker. I revisited a piece I&#8217;d learnt a while ago, the theme to Star Wars, and was pleasantly surprised at how well I played it &#8211; ok, the fourth note of the opening took a little time to accomplish, but the rest was all good. I guess I must be improving, at least something good has happened today. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve started looking for a property to purchase. I&#8217;ve never done this before, so it&#8217;s all a bit new to me. I&#8217;ve talked with a lender about a mortgage, found out how much I can borrow and I had a look around some flats last night. Afterwards, I discussed the ins and outs of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=511\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}