{"id":257,"date":"2004-05-11T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/"},"modified":"2004-05-11T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T06:48:00","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/257\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/oreck.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"So powerful, it can lift a 16 lb. bowling ball!\" \/>Have you ever seen the ad for Oreck vacuum cleaners? They sell you an upright carpet cleaner, and as a &#8220;bonus&#8221; you get a little hand-held job with a shoulder strap for &#8220;free,&#8221; and it&#8217;s so powerful, it can lift a bowling ball?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we actually bought one of these a few years ago, and the upright is a great, light-weight, easy-to-maneuver vac with a lot of suction, and the little guy works OK, but honestly it&#8217;s as good as a space heater as it is as a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>And also, sure, it&#8217;ll pick up a bowling ball, but then what? Do you know how many bowling balls fit in that little bag? That&#8217;s right, none.<\/p>\n<p>I am tempted, though, to take ours out to the local bowling alley on a lark, plug it in, and start lifting balls and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen the ad for Oreck vacuum cleaners? They sell you an upright carpet cleaner, and as a &#8220;bonus&#8221; you get a little hand-held job with a shoulder strap for &#8220;free,&#8221; and it&#8217;s so powerful, it can lift a bowling ball? Well, we actually bought one of these a few years ago, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/257\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}