{"id":1116,"date":"2011-06-13T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/the-1000000-house\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T09:36:54","slug":"the-1000000-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/the-1000000-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The $1,000,000 House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe $1,000,000 House<\/a>, a photo by Steph Jennings<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n

For Sale, Historic Earthquake Site, River View, Portaloos coming. $1,000,000.<\/p>\n

Taken cycling through Avonside one of the worst effected areas in the February 22nd quake, today’s picture isn’t about the image it’s about the message.<\/p>\n

Today (June 13th) Christchurch was rocked by another series of large aftershocks, thankfully this time only a few were injured and there were no fatalities, but there has been yet more extensive damage to the infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Houses fallen, businesses closed and roads, sewers, power lines and water mains “munted<\/a>” – yet more uncertainty and testing times for the residents but this image shows that after the worst of experiences you can still see the bright side and maintain a sense of humour.<\/p>\n

Stay strong Christchurch, or Kia Kaha<\/a> as the locals would say, keep your heads up and you’ll come through this again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The $1,000,000 House, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. For Sale, Historic Earthquake Site, River View, Portaloos coming. $1,000,000. Taken cycling through Avonside one of the worst effected areas in the February 22nd quake, today’s picture isn’t about the image it’s about the message. Today (June 13th) Christchurch was rocked by another series of … Continue reading The $1,000,000 House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,103,1],"tags":[345,343,350,355,346,333,352,344,354,342,562,353,351],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography","category-wbiagw","tag-eqnz","tag-nzpicoftheday","tag-avonside","tag-canterbury","tag-damage","tag-earthquake","tag-humour","tag-new-zealand","tag-nz","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-river","tag-sign"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-i0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/red-stickered\/","url_meta":{"origin":1116,"position":0},"title":"Red Stickered","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Red Stickered, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. 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