{"id":136,"date":"2005-10-10T00:43:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/10\/brushing-the-carpet\/"},"modified":"2017-05-14T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:00:47","slug":"brushing-the-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/10\/brushing-the-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushing the carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny one happened to me the other day. We&#8217;d eaten in the dining room, something we don&#8217;t do do that often anymore since the kitchen renovation was finished with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/dryman.com.au\/\">http:\/\/dryman.com.au<\/a>, anyway Jacob had spilled most of his rice over the floor and I was busy tidying it up with a brush. While I was doing this I was thinking; the <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"vacuum cleaner\" title=\"vacuum cleaner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/vacuum%20cleaner\" rel=\"tag\">vacuum cleaner<\/a> will make light work of this&#8230; A couple of days later the stairs carpet was in dire need of a clean, this was due to me stripping wallpaper from the walls, anyway after removing all the big bits, I found myself brushing the carpet down with a small brush. Same thing came to mind; the vacumn cleaner would make light work of this&#8230;  Now I&#8217;m always running around the house with a Vac, got kids and they take a lof of cleaning up after! Anyway I concluded that brushing the floor rather than using the vacuum cleaner is actually very <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"therapeutic\" title=\"therapeutic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/therapeutic\" rel=\"tag\">therapeutic<\/a> and I intend to do it more often.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Cleaning\" title=\"Cleaning\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Cleaning\" rel=\"tag\" >Cleaning<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"vacuum cleaner\" title=\"vacuum cleaner\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vacuum%20cleaner\" rel=\"tag\" >vacuum cleaner<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"therapeutic\" title=\"therapeutic\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/therapeutic\" rel=\"tag\" >therapeutic<\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"vacuum cleaner\" title=\"vacuum cleaner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/vacuum%20cleaner\">vacuum cleaner<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"therapeutic\" title=\"therapeutic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/therapeutic\">therapeutic<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny one happened to me the other day. We&#8217;d eaten in the dining room, something we don&#8217;t do do that often anymore since the kitchen renovation was finished with the help of http:\/\/dryman.com.au, anyway Jacob had spilled most of his rice over the floor and I was busy tidying it up with a brush. While &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/10\/brushing-the-carpet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brushing the carpet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-2c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}