{"id":83,"date":"2004-08-16T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2004-08-16T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T18:20:03","slug":"happy-vacuuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Happy vacuuming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our weekly trip to Lowe&#8217;s, we stopped at Sears because Sylvain needed some tools for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sylvain.homeip.net\/blog\/archives\/000133.html\">chevelle project<\/a>. I went upstairs to check the prices of the home appliances and see if there was much of a price differential with Lowe&#8217;s. (Not too much of a difference, but much more selection.) I saw that they sold Dyson vacuums there and prodded Sylvain to come check them out with me. We had thought of getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyson.com\/range\/feature_frame.asp?model=DC07-ANIMAL\">one<\/a> after I read that they make a vacuum accessory that targets pesky pet hair &#8211; and if you&#8217;ve seen either of our cars or our couches, you know that it is truly pesky pet hair. Well, after a demonstration from salesperson &#8211; we were pretty much sold! I felt a bit anxious afterwards, since the Dyson is not exactly the most affordable vacuum out there. On the way home, I was envisioning Sylvain cursing the darn thing and blaming the Brits for a horrible design. After I had assembled it and we started vacuuming, we were amazed &#038; disgusted by how much dust, dirt and pesky pet hair it had picked up! So, instead of cursing it, we were praising it and Sylvain called it &#8220;true engineering&#8221; and to leave it to the Brits to come up with a design like this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our weekly trip to Lowe&#8217;s, we stopped at Sears because Sylvain needed some tools for the chevelle project. I went upstairs to check the prices of the home appliances and see if there was much of a price differential with Lowe&#8217;s. (Not too much of a difference, but much more selection.) I saw that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}