{"id":3857,"date":"2011-03-12T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2011-03-12T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:54:24","slug":"dancing-with-the-roomba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"Dancing with the roomba."},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn\u2019t say the rumba.  Room-ba.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little robotic floor sweeper that scurries about a little<\/p>\n

like a crab and moves about by lightly bumping into walls and<\/p>\n

cabinets and people.<\/p>\n

I turn it on when I\u2019m busy in the kitchen and it goes about its<\/p>\n

merry way- bumping  around the house.<\/p>\n

\"010\"<\/a>\"012\"<\/a>\"013\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes it comes up right behind me and bumps into my heels.<\/p>\n

I can usually hear it, so I\u2019m kind of prepared-<\/p>\n

\"014\"<\/a>\"016\"<\/a>\"017\"<\/a><\/p>\n

except it is much quieter when going over a rug, so it can really<\/p>\n

surprise you sometimes.  <\/p>\n

Yesterday, I would step to the right and it seemed to follow my steps,<\/p>\n

right step, left step, glide, glide.  <\/p>\n

I\u2019m so glad no one was taking a video.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat cha doin\u2019, Heidi?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing.  Just a little dance with my roomba!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"005\"<\/a><\/p>\n

here he is, hooked up to his momma!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"006\"<\/a><\/p>\n

close up of my new dance partner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn\u2019t say the rumba.  Room-ba. It\u2019s a little robotic floor sweeper that scurries about a little like a crab and moves about by lightly bumping into walls and cabinets and people. I turn it on when I\u2019m busy in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folksy","category-stepsonthejourney","category-whimsey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}