{"id":472,"date":"2010-08-31T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:08:00","slug":"my-aha-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"my aha moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?attachment_id=471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-471\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/thesimplehouse-aha.jpg?resize=450%2C262\" alt=\"\" title=\"ahamoment\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/thesimplehouse-aha.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/thesimplehouse-aha.jpg?resize=300%2C174 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> A couple of weeks ago, Mutual of Omaha came through Eugene. Someone from their organization had wandered across our website and contacted me about recording my &#8220;aha moment&#8221;. I thought, &#8220;why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, on a warm, sunny August day, in an Airstream trailer in downtown Eugene, I spent a few minutes chatting with Jessica Henry and recording a snippet of what started stirring in me in late 2008. It was that &#8220;stirring&#8221; that led to the beginning of thesimpleHOUSE and our whole concept. You can watch my aha moment at <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahamoment.com\/pg\/moments\/view\/17215\">my aha moment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think. I&#8217;m usually fairly calm in front of people, but found myself a bit nervous with lights, camera and microphone. It was still a great experience, though and I&#8217;m glad I did it. It&#8217;s always good to tell your story and fremind yourself just what it was that brought you to the point you&#8217;re at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, Mutual of Omaha came through Eugene. Someone from their organization had wandered across our website and contacted me about recording my &#8220;aha moment&#8221;. I thought, &#8220;why not?&#8221; So, on a warm, sunny August day, in an Airstream trailer in downtown Eugene, I spent a few minutes chatting with Jessica Henry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;my aha moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[96,12,13,15,16,58,97,26,29,31,33,98],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-aha-moment","tag-design","tag-energy-efficient","tag-houses","tag-housing","tag-less","tag-mutual-of-omaha","tag-responsible","tag-simple","tag-stock-plans","tag-sustainable-and-green","tag-uncluttered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}