{"id":822,"date":"2009-05-30T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:10:32","slug":"spiritual-advice-from-personal-care-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/spiritual-advice-from-personal-care-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Advice from Personal Care Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Live Clean, Sweet Pea 8496 by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/warwalker\/3578498626\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Live Clean, Sweet Pea\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3327\/3578498626_f29cdfb037_m.jpg\" alt=\"Live Clean, Sweet Pea 8496\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Clean, Sweet Pea!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the edge of the sink in our bathroom stands a bottle of liquid hand soap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LIVE CLEAN,&#8221; announces the label.\u00a0 Appearing below the brand name, in slightly smaller type, are the words &#8220;Sweet Pea.&#8221;\u00a0 I choose to read the label &#8211; each and every time I use the bathroom &#8211; as an exhortation to adopt a generally ethical approach to life, followed by a diminutive and familiar address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Live Clean, Sweet Pea!&#8221;\u00a0 says the soap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll try, l&#8217;il dumplin&#8217;,&#8221; I answer.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I leave the bathroom with clean hands, a renewed sense of purpose and a feeling that I am well-liked and surrounded by various and sundry supportive items of personal property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Clean, Sweet Pea!<\/p>\n<p>On the edge of the sink in our bathroom stands a bottle of liquid hand soap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LIVE CLEAN,&#8221; announces the label. Appearing below the brand name, in slightly smaller type, are the words &#8220;Sweet Pea.&#8221; I choose to read the label &#8211; each and every time I use the bathroom [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629,124,26],"tags":[766,764,767,765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}