{"id":4466,"date":"2013-11-18T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2013-11-27T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:11:26","slug":"robot-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/robot-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my wife&#8217;s never-ending goal to rid our home of dust in every conceivable fashion, she went ahead and bought us a robot mopper. \u00a0 Dust be GONE!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, it&#8217;s turned out to be a pretty neat little product. It crawls its way around our floors and does a job successful enough that my wife is happy. That&#8217;s nothing to dismiss either&#8230;I&#8217;ve been on my hands and knees mopping the floor myself on occasion and it&#8217;s NOT good enough. (Images always flash in my mind of the scene in Full Metal Jacket where the drill sergeant inspects the Marines&#8217; bunks with white gloves.) \u00a0So if this robot passes her test it&#8217;s good enough for me!<\/p>\n<p>Kingston already named it &#8220;Arbor&#8221; (go figure. He named his grandma&#8217;s cockatiel\u00a0bird, &#8220;Block&#8221;). And as I sat there 1am in the morning the other day watching it diligently scurrying about our floors in some pattern that only makes sense to its little robot mind, I must admit I&#8217;m growing attached to the thing like its some new pet or something.<\/p>\n<p>One time I came home to find it had pushed some of our slippers across the house and I almost felt like I was supposed to scold it, &#8220;Oh Arbor you naughty little guy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I probably need mental help.\u00a0(photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techbox.sk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Techbox<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my wife&#8217;s never-ending goal to rid our home of dust in every conceivable fashion, she went ahead and bought us a robot mopper. \u00a0 Dust be GONE! At the end of the day, it&#8217;s turned out to be a pretty neat little product. It crawls its way around our floors and does a job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}