{"id":1417,"date":"2007-04-04T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2007-04-04T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T14:03:57","slug":"if-apple-made-vacuum-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1417","title":{"rendered":"If Apple made vacuum cleaners."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over Spring Break I splurged a little and bought something I&#8217;ve wanted ever since I first lid eyes on it last fall: <a title=\"Dyson US - Dyson Root 6\u00e2\u201e\u00a2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dyson.com\/range\/feature_frame.asp?model=DC16-SY-STD&#038;sinavtype=menu\"> the Dyson Root 6\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 handheld vaccuum cleaner.<\/a>  Definitely the winner of the &#8220;you spent <i>what<\/i> for <b><i>what?<\/b><\/i>&#8221; award in our household recently, but I love this thing.  It&#8217;s not a Dustbuster, it&#8217;s a <i>weapon<\/i> &#150; complete with gun-style trigger and sci-fi styling.  Hefting this baby in your hands makes you feel like Master Chief gunning for aliens.  Ladies, if you want your men to do more cleaning around the house, <i>buy him one of these.<\/i><br \/>\nNow, granted, the Root 6 isn&#8217;t perfect &#150; its suction isn&#8217;t quite as powerful as I&#8217;d expected and the battery ran down a lot faster than I thought on its first use, but still, this thing is pretty dang cool.  Plus, anything that helps me keep my studio clean is a big win.<br \/>\nWow.  I think I just took the whole &#8220;clean-to-procrastinate&#8221; thing to a <i>whole new level.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Spring Break I splurged a little and bought something I&#8217;ve wanted ever since I first lid eyes on it last fall: the Dyson Root 6\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 handheld vaccuum cleaner. Definitely the winner of the &#8220;you spent what for what?&#8221; award in our household recently, but I love this thing. It&#8217;s not a Dustbuster, it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-mR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}