{"id":320,"date":"2007-01-02T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/01\/02\/box-sprung\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:34:57","slug":"box-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/01\/02\/box-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"Box-sprung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing saga of minutia that is my life, my latest foe is a full-size box-spring, particularly my <em>fianc\u00e9e&#8217;s<\/em> box-spring. You see in an effort to peacefully join possessions we kept my mattress, which we both agreed was more comfortable, and her bed and box-spring, which she liked the look of. The rub lies the fact that a box-spring makes a mattress exceptionally softer. Who would want this? My back now sounds like a Rubik&#8217;s cube every time I move. <\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the box-spring has three uses: to raise the height of the bed, to protect the mattress, and to create a flat and firm surface for the mattress to rest on. I say crap to all this. We moved the mattress to the floor last night and things were immensely improved. I think college kids have the right idea. I&#8217;m chopping the bed and spring up tonight and hanging some black-light posters.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if you are wondering, I am slightly difficult to live with.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s pic is from my walk home last night. The bridge is a beautiful, but noisy place.<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site of the Day:<\/strong> All good comes with bad, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gothamist05\/~3\/69844352\/subway_delays_c.php\">unhealthy dieting women are to blame for subway delays<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing saga of minutia that is my life, my latest foe is a full-size box-spring, particularly my <em>fianc\u00e9e&#8217;s<\/em> box-spring. You see in an effort to peacefully join possessions we kept my mattress, which we both agreed was more comfortable, and her bed and box-spring, which she liked the look of. The rub lies the fact that a box-spring makes a mattress exceptionally softer. Who would want this? My back now sounds like a Rubik&#8217;s cube every time I move.<br \/>\nAccording to Wikipedia, the box-spring has three uses: to raise the height of the bed, to protect the mattress, and to create a flat and firm surface for the mattress to rest on. I say crap to all this. We moved the mattress to the floor last night and things were immensely improved. I think college kids have the right idea. I&#8217;m chopping the bed and spring up tonight and hanging some black-light posters.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if you are wondering, I am slightly difficult to live with.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s pic is from my walk home last night. The bridge is a beautiful, but noisy place.<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site of the Day:<\/strong> All good comes with bad, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gothamist05\/~3\/69844352\/subway_delays_c.php\">unhealthy dieting women are to blame for subway delays<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}