{"id":7913,"date":"2018-10-08T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2019-01-06T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T21:26:13","slug":"cementing-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Cementing Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big hello from HiJenx! We apologize for the massive gap in videos. We have been very busy with our real jobs \ud83d\ude42 At the end of August, we headed up to Estrella in the wee hours of the morning to see the foundation of our new house laid. The first time, there was a bit of a false start in that there was a delay of a day. This is only to be expected with building works, but it did involve two very early days and traveling 220 miles in 2 days while working in the car when possible.<\/p>\n<p>The day it finally did happen, a Tuesday, we arrived just before the cement trucks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.17.37-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The foundations were not as simple as just putting cement down. They were carefully covering tension cables:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-27-06.39.00-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very, very large piece of machinery arrived to put the cement in place, along with several cement trucks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-06.29.30-e1539012992916-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took about 90 minutes and the men doing it were very pleasant and talkative in addition to seeming very confident in what they were doing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-07.38.23-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-08-28-08.31.49.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_18346\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDGSTfVvncY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big hello from HiJenx! We apologize for the massive gap in videos. We have been very busy with our real jobs \ud83d\ude42 At the end of August, we headed up to Estrella in the wee hours of the morning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,227,334,324,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-new-beginning","category-arizona","category-estrella","category-goodyear","category-new-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}