{"id":5597,"date":"2012-10-18T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2012-10-18T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:33:54","slug":"high-performance-broom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5597","title":{"rendered":"High Performance Broom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I was shopping at Meijer (regional grocery chain) I spotted a high performance broom in the housewares isle.\u00a0 Unlike the traditional straw brooms, this one had a metal handle with a bend in the center.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought that it was defective but when I noticed that they were all that way.\u00a0 So, I concluded that it must be a design feature but why?\u00a0 Was it to be ergonomically correct?\u00a0 Was it to improve performance?\u00a0 I decided to buy one to find out.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I haven&#8217;t noticed any difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I was shopping at Meijer (regional grocery chain) I spotted a high performance broom in the housewares isle.\u00a0 Unlike the traditional straw brooms, this one had a metal handle with a bend in the center. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}