{"id":426,"date":"2014-02-15T06:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-04-25T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T01:15:07","slug":"sweeping-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about being married is the opportunity to sweep together. I dare say that for me and Jerry it is probably <a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"133\" height=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>one of the most intimate things we do.<\/p>\n<p>Last month we were clearing out construction debris in the in-law unit of our Nevada house and naturally we ended the activity by sweeping. It was great. Jerry grabbed a broom, I had a dustpan and together we worked to get the floor swept clean. Jerry would brush sawdust into a big pile and I would scoop it up with the dustpan. While I was depositing it into the trash bag Jerry would brush the remaining debris into another pile for round two.<\/p>\n<p>As we progressed to other sections of the room where the debris was heavier we naturally switched places and I took the broom while Jerry held the dustpan. Little words were said while we focused on the moment and the work.<\/p>\n<p>At one point we both had brooms, each sweeping our different end of the room, but eventually we came back together, combining our piles in to a single one, Jerry holding the dustpan, repositioning it at the end of the line of dirt made by the edge while I filled it.<\/p>\n<p>We really should sweep together more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about being married is the opportunity to sweep together. I dare say that for me and Jerry it is probably one of the most intimate things we do. Last month we were clearing out construction debris in the in-law unit of our Nevada house and naturally we ended the activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wedded-bliss-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}