{"id":457,"date":"2007-02-09T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/02\/09\/ive-fallen-and-i-cant-get-up\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:22:56","slug":"ive-fallen-and-i-cant-get-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve fallen and I can&#8217;t get up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before how enjoyable our <a href=\"http:\/\/store.irobot.com\/shop\/index.jsp?categoryId=2542770\">Roomba <\/a>is, and how nice it is to just set it on the floor and have it vacuum for me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 We like it so much we got one for each of our moms for Christmas, and we hope they enjoy them as much as we do.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But I set the little guy down in the family room (the most vacuumed room in the house!) and it went around for a minute and then stopped and did it&#8217;s sad little &#8220;beep, Beep.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 beep. beep. beep.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Which in Roomba language is the equivalent of a human saying &#8220;Help!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve fallen and I can&#8217;t get up.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I went to check on the vacuum and see why it wasn&#8217;t running properly, feeling slightly like the evil stepmother in Cinderella (&#8220;you can&#8217;t go to the recharger until you do your vacuuming!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And wash the floor, and the tapestries, and the draperies&#8230;..&#8221;).\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The poor little devil had sucked up an unraveling bit of the rug, and had it so wrapped around it&#8217;s little brushes, that it was really stuck.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, I made quick work of unraveling it and now it&#8217;s off happily vacuuming again.<\/p>\n<p>And I did have some point to this story.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It was funnier in my mind.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s all you get today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before how enjoyable our Roomba is, and how nice it is to just set it on the floor and have it vacuum for me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 We like it so much we got one for each of our moms for Christmas, and we hope they enjoy them as much as we do.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But I set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}