{"id":77,"date":"2009-09-27T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmstrs.getmyip.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-10-10T00:51:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:51:40","slug":"drying-out-cleaning-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Drying Out & Cleaning Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cleaning<\/p>\n

We’re finally drying out in Atlanta.\u00a0 The flood caused a mess in a lot of basements, including ours.\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve spent the past week moving furniture, pulling up wet carpet, and drying out floors.\u00a0 There was dirt hiding under the carpet, and some mold hiding under the vinyl in the hallway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The thing about the mold under the vinyl is, I think it’s been there a long time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It took a flood to finally give us the incentive to pull it up and pour on the bleach.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 I regret the flood happened.\u00a0\u00a0 But, if it hadn’t been for the flood, that old carpet dirt and moldy vinyl would still be on the floor.\u00a0 It might even be making us sick.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The floor is hard and rough looking now.\u00a0 No carpet pad sandwiched between dirt and dog pee.\u00a0 Just plain, cold concrete.\u00a0 Even so, there is something refreshing about it.\u00a0\u00a0 It is what it is. \u00a0There’s nothing covered up.\u00a0 Nothing lurking under the surface.\u00a0 And the basement is beginning to smell clean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think people are like that dirty carpet and moldy vinyl.\u00a0 Washed clean on the outside, but with dirt and goo underneath the surface.\u00a0 Perhaps we should all learn a lesson from\u00a0my basement.\u00a0 Pull up the mess and get rid of the facade.\u00a0 Stop pretending and come clean.\u00a0 We might see a few rough edges, but I bet the air will\u00a0be a bit fresher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re finally drying out in Atlanta.\u00a0 The flood caused a mess in a lot of basements, including ours.\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve spent the past week moving furniture, pulling up wet carpet, and drying out floors.\u00a0 There was dirt hiding under the carpet, and some mold hiding under the vinyl in the hallway.\u00a0 The thing about the mold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}