{"id":2061,"date":"2010-05-06T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2010-05-07T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:06:04","slug":"keeping-it-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"Keeping It Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a piece of junk mail that said, &#8220;Life&#8217;s too short to clean your own home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It sounds so good and so true if you don&#8217;t think about it too hard, doesn&#8217;t it? I mean, I work hard all week, so why should I have to do menial labor on top of it? But if I look at it from another angle, thinking about how many hours I&#8217;d have to work to pay for a weekly cleaning, then it&#8217;s a different matter. I&#8217;m salaried, so I couldn&#8217;t even work extra hours to pay for the cleaning if I wanted to. The cost of the service would have to come out of what I already make, and let&#8217;s face it, that&#8217;s not nearly enough to start paying for things that I could do myself for free. Or things that I could just not do and hope no one else notices (this is also known as the &#8220;only clean what really needs it&#8221; policy, and I think it works well!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a piece of junk mail that said, &#8220;Life&#8217;s too short to clean your own home.&#8221; It sounds so good and so true if you don&#8217;t think about it too hard, doesn&#8217;t it? I mean, I work hard all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[222,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}