{"id":12306,"date":"2020-01-22T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2020-01-25T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:45:55","slug":"daily_1839_-_humble_brushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/daily_1839_-_humble_brushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1839 &#8211; humble brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1839_toothbrushes.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nAt some point, a box of Humble toothbrushes somehow turned up in the house. I&#8217;m sure I didn&#8217;t buy them. But here they are, so I thought I&#8217;d try them.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of smooth plastic toothbrushes in my mouth, a bamboo brush feels distinctly odd. The handle and the head are flat and straight, not rounded like I&#8217;m used to. It doesn&#8217;t have that kink in the handle that most brushes have, so the geometry feels a bit off. And I can feel the texture of bamboo against my tongue and cheeks all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic brushes, especially those with colourful patterns, radiate fun, modernity and slickness.<br \/>\nThe humble brush radiates humility.<\/p>\n<p>Buying plastic that I know I will throw away within months feels really, really icky now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, a box of Humble toothbrushes somehow turned up in the house. I&#8217;m sure I didn&#8217;t buy them. But here they are, so I thought I&#8217;d try them. After decades of smooth plastic toothbrushes in my mouth, a bamboo brush feels distinctly odd. The handle and the head are flat and straight, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12308,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}