{"id":23016,"date":"2025-10-16T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=23016"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:46:10","slug":"carpets-a-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=23016","title":{"rendered":"Carpets, A Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ron felt a lump on his side; it was a tick so swollen it was grey.  It was also deeply embedded and I had a hard time getting all of it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worked on the living room wall to wall today and made some progress with an Oxy-based cleaning product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron did a transfer station and grocery store run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooked a double portion of mac and cheese for supper.  Ron devoured most of it.  He didn&#8217;t realize how hungry he was.  He&#8217;s having more lower intestinal control problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gave Alyssa our copy of the Williamstown Historical Society newsletter.  It has a full-page story about their uncle Dave; he&#8217;s also in their cover story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Town Treasurer explained why I was double billed for the Excise Tax on the Corolla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron felt a lump on his side; it was a tick so swollen it was grey. It was also deeply embedded and I had a hard time getting all of it out.Worked on the living room wall to wall today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=23016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23032,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions\/23032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}