{"id":86,"date":"2014-11-12T03:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:27:09","slug":"the-other-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"The Other Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband had decided that the way to cut\u00a0up some downed trees on our franch was with a two-man saw. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because, we like to do things the hard way.\u00a0 So, the search began. \u00a0At first, he could only find antique ones advertised. \u00a0Laughing, I remarked, &#8220;There&#8217;s an easy explanation for that &#8211; the invention of the powered chain saw!&#8221; \u00a0One day, as he shared with me his frustrations of only finding one advertised 50+ miles away, it dawned on me,\u00a0&#8220;Wait a second&#8230;who do you think &#8216;the other man&#8217; of the two-man saw is going to me? It isn&#8217;t going to be\u00a0me!&#8221; \u00a0Thankfully, some pressing issues came up at his job\u00a0and there was no more talk about this antiquated way of cutting wood. \u00a0For some crazy reason, I really want my husband to be happy and accomplish whatever he comes up with no matter how insane&#8230;so I\u00a0secretly took\u00a0on\u00a0the search and surprised him with a\u00a0two-man saw. \u00a0So, weeks later,\u00a0there I was, on the other side of a big log knowing\u00a0I only had myself to blame. \u00a0Most of you haven&#8217;t time traveled from the past to today, so let me explain, you need to be in rhythm with your partner for the two-man saw to smoothly cut the wood. \u00a0It was hilarious how we\u00a0just couldn&#8217;t quite get into rhythm with each other. \u00a0I&#8217;d pull, he&#8217;d push, then he&#8217;d pull when I wasn&#8217;t done pulling, so I&#8217;d push, and he&#8217;d hesitate, and we&#8217;d both then pull&#8230; \u00a0But, we still eventually made it happen while laughing the whole time. \u00a0This completely fits\u00a0how we live most of our life together. \u00a0It&#8217;s a little awkward, but it works, and it is a whole lot of fun. \u00a0This evening, as\u00a0an arctic blast blows in to our area, we did our family devotions beside a roaring fire with the wood cut when I was willing to be &#8220;the other man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3656-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3656\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3656-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3656-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3656-676x443.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband had decided that the way to cut\u00a0up some downed trees on our franch was with a two-man saw. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because, we like to do things the hard way.\u00a0 So, the search began. \u00a0At first, he could only find antique ones advertised. \u00a0Laughing, I remarked, &#8220;There&#8217;s an easy explanation for that &#8211; the invention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-a-laugh","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}