{"id":680,"date":"2006-01-22T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/680\/"},"modified":"2006-01-22T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T17:06:14","slug":"now-lie-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/now-lie-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Lie in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, the chore of making the bed has always stood out among other pointless household tasks as quite possibly the most pointless of them all.<\/p>\n<p>The others generally contribute in at least some small part toward improving sanitary conditions in the home; even if I don&#8217;t agree with how often such things need to be done (Need the floors really be spotless with no small persons about to crawl on them? I think not.), I can see that they have <i>some<\/i> function.<\/p>\n<p>Bed making, on the other hand, is completely cosmetic.  Unless you&#8217;ve just changed the sheets, it serves no purpose other than to make the bedroom look neat.  And, unless company is coming over and you want them to see your nice bedroom, the only person you&#8217;re impressing is yourself (and anyone else who shares the bedroom with you).   Frankly, I&#8217;m more impressed by having that 5-10 minutes back in my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, the chore of making the bed has always stood out among other pointless household tasks as quite possibly the most pointless of them all. The others generally contribute in at least some small part toward improving sanitary conditions in the home; even if I don&#8217;t agree with how often such things need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}