{"id":1415,"date":"2011-12-25T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2011-12-11T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:13:39","slug":"holiday-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t sought out this year’s specially marked for Christmas household cleaning products, but I am sure there are plenty around that\u00a0I should be buying and using at this special time of year, right?\u00a0 However, I took this pic and put it up for my blog readers in 2005 – where does the time go? and thought it’s time for another posting.\u00a0 Here in Latin America cleaning is big and a constant battle – not that people are dirtier than anywhere else, they just work harder at being clean is my take on it.\u00a0 This year this whole thing has been complicated by regular doses of the volcanic ash cloud from Mt. Peyuhue in\u00a0 Chile that, apart from peridocially causing flights to be cancelled, leaves a coating of abrasive powder\u00a0on flat surfaces everywhere and tracks in onto the wooden floors.\u00a0 More cleaning.\u00a0 Or not, depending which cultural background you come from \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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So\u00a0that makes me think I’d best get down to the supermarket and check this year’s special edition cleaning products…. nah – by the time you read this I won’t even be here,\u00a0 and the house minder can feel free to use any of the products already in the cupboard.\u00a0 So wherever you are and whatever mess you are dealing\u00a0with or ignoring – muddy wet foot prints from the snow, ash cloud foot prints,\u00a0 sand tracked inside the beach house, food rubbish left too long in the\u00a0bin before taking it out, a\u00a0sudden onslaught of teenage darlings home for the holidays\u00a0eating you out of\u00a0 house and home but not clearing up after themselves, and more –\u00a0 happy Christmas and my best wishes for the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t sought out this year’s specially marked for Christmas household cleaning products, but I am sure there are plenty around that\u00a0I should be buying and using at this special time of year, right?\u00a0 However, I took this pic and put it up for my blog readers in 2005 – where does the time go? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-mP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}