{"id":484,"date":"2007-06-05T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/operation-kerosene-update-1\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:55:43","slug":"operation-kerosene-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/operation-kerosene-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Kerosene Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Progress is being made on the home front. After several days of tossing and straightening, I can make one astounding claim: I have a ten year old boy&#8217;s room clean. As in party clean. <span>Scary<\/span> clean. It took a while, but the toys and junk have been winnowed, and about four pounds of sand have been returned to the natural environment (he has <span>got<\/span> to start emptying his sneakers before he comes inside!).<\/p>\n<p>DD&#8217;s room is looking good, too. Nice new rug, new furniture arrangement, far fewer clothes in the dresser and closet (although she collects clothes like a Park Avenue debutante on a platinum-card spree, since all of her older friends pass them along to her). We still need to repair the footboard of her bed and find the rails&#8211;hey, at 170 years old, it&#8217;s doing pretty well&#8211;and get the last of her gack out of the living room, and then I&#8217;ll have two rooms to celebrate over.<\/p>\n<p>So the lovely trash men came and carried off two extra cans&#8217; worth of junk. I feel lighter. If only extra pounds on my butt were so easily discarded.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s task: mucking off the desk. There is wood to be found.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is being made on the home front. After several days of tossing and straightening, I can make one astounding claim: I have a ten year old boy&#8217;s room clean. As in party clean. Scary clean. It took a while, but the toys and junk have been winnowed, and about four pounds of sand have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-7O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}