{"id":1990,"date":"2005-07-19T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2005-07-19T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T21:24:16","slug":"waxbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Waxbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie brought a wax bath with her.  It&#8217;s one of those standard things where you dip your hands into liquid wax and let it warm your hands as it hardens into a rose scented waxy glove.  I know lots of folks who have these, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s therapeutic, but to me the big point is that it&#8217;s a lot of fun.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy Wife and I actually got a wax bath thing from a friend of ours.  It&#8217;s at home, and we&#8217;ve just never set it up.  That&#8217;ll probably change after this trip.  Playing with melted wax was something I always did as a little kid, and it isn&#8217;t any less fun now that I&#8217;m an adult.<\/p>\n<p>At Christmastime, one of the highlights was the candlelight service at my Grandma&#8217;s church.  And to me the second best part was when everyone got to light the little candles and they&#8217;d dim the lights while we all sang &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;.  The best part was playing with the melted wax that dripped off the candle while everyone was singing.<\/p>\n<p>My only little bit of trepidation is that the combination of liquid wax and shedding cats could get kind of disgusting if we&#8217;re not careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie brought a wax bath with her. It&#8217;s one of those standard things where you dip your hands into liquid wax and let it warm your hands as it hardens into a rose scented waxy glove. I know lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}