{"id":6600,"date":"2008-11-06T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:48:53","slug":"cross-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/cross-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHmm, very similar to the Redemption Shoe Brush&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the cross brush is an emotionally complicated product. for people with ties to christianity, the brush represents an unorthodox, even disrespectful manipulation of a revered symbol. touching a dirty floor with a cross is grade A defacement in certain circles. i think, though, that it can be seen as an example of how the christian cross is constantly being re-interpreted by different cultures. in the early 21st century, this vaguely troubling, slightly wrong-shaped object poses a lot of questions about shared values. it&#8217;s also an amusing visual pun of the phrase &#8220;cleanliness is next to godliness&#8221;, and fun to have around as an engaging (and sometimes shocking) conversation piece. its 16&#8243; x 10&#8243; size also provides a large surface area for scrubbing, if you&#8217;re inclined to pay your penance that way.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>$128.00, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicahome.com\/p20767\/cross-brush-by-citizen-citizen.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, very similar to the Redemption Shoe Brush&#8230; &#8220;the cross brush is an emotionally complicated product. for people with ties to christianity, the brush represents an unorthodox, even disrespectful manipulation of a revered symbol. touching a dirty floor with a cross is grade A defacement in certain circles. i think, though, that it can be [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[466,120,124],"tags":[140,447],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40383,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/40383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}