{"id":11,"date":"2011-01-27T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/?p=11"},"modified":"2015-03-14T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T13:16:53","slug":"what-is-the-mushroom-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/what-is-the-mushroom-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Mushroom Factor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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That is the question of the day, isn’t it? Well, though I wrote a small blurb<\/a> about it early in the days of this blog, I found that Squidoo<\/a> had no search results for it. That is right: a whole huge online community had no resource for understanding this concept that we do-it-yourselfers understand all too well.<\/p>\n

So. I wrote an article on it. On the Squidoo<\/del> site they call them “lenses”, where people can take a closer look at a topic they want to know something about. It is surprisingly easy to write for the site, everything is set up to work like a very simple blog. Like a one page blog for each topic.<\/p>\n

Would you like to read it? “What is the Mushroom Factor?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

fixing up old houses That is the question of the day, isn’t it? Well, though I wrote a small blurb about it early in the days of this blog, I found that Squidoo had no search results for it. 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