{"id":151,"date":"2007-03-01T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-03-01T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T04:40:00","slug":"1975-has-a-lot-to-answer-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"1975 has a lot to answer for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/406305364\/in\/set-72157594514830775\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/143\/406305364_5555ba28f2_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Isn&#8217;t it just <i>lovely<\/i>?  That&#8217;s the carpet which is in one of the intermediate layers upon our floor.  Beneath it, throughout the kitchen area at least, is a layer of black foam rubber, and then a layer of linoleum.  We haven&#8217;t breached the linoleum yet.  Atop this lovely carpet is another layer of carpet.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We figure that this carpet was put down in, oh, about 1977.  So, for the past 30 years this carpet&#8217;s been hiding out, and keeping its dark layer of foam hidden from the light of day, allowing it to thoroughly bond to its linoleum friend.  It&#8217;s particularly disgusting, because after 30 years, foam rubber?  Oh, no.  It&#8217;s just spongy muck at that point.  Bleh.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>What&#8217;s particularly terrifying to me is the coloring of this carpet.  T says she&#8217;d like to frame this piece, as it&#8217;s in such good shape.  I&#8217;m just afraid of the radioactive isotopes involved in manufacturing the dyes.  I mean, just <b>how<\/b> can it have stayed so brightly colored?  I&#8217;m certain that there had to have been now-extinct species hunted down for their exotic parts, just so this carpet could retain its hideousness for all time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it just lovely? That&#8217;s the carpet which is in one of the intermediate layers upon our floor. Beneath it, throughout the kitchen area at least, is a layer of black foam rubber, and then a layer of linoleum. We haven&#8217;t breached the linoleum yet. Atop this lovely carpet is another layer of carpet. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remodel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}