{"id":21432,"date":"2009-01-07T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=639"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:22:56","slug":"water-quality-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/water-quality-or-lack-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality (Or Lack Thereof)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blech!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I really miss about Oliver was how good the tap water was there! I use a Brita pitcher to filter my drinking water. My first day here, I filled up my pitcher and took a gulp of the water, then promptly spit it out, discovering that I was long overdue to change the filter! The water here is highly chlorinated and has an off-taste reminiscent of old socks (a flavour attribute I only appreciate in my cheese, thank you kindly).\u00a0 I made the mistake this morning of making my coffee with water from the tap rather than the pitcher and I got a lovely caffeinated cup of chlorinated old sock sludge. Yum!<\/p>\n<p>The filter is not able to full rid the water of its nasty flavour properties, so I&#8217;m going to have to get water in jugs for drinking and beverage making purposes. *sighs*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blech! One thing I really miss about Oliver was how good the tap water was there! I use a Brita pitcher to filter my drinking water. My first day here, I filled up my pitcher and took a gulp of the water, then promptly spit it out, discovering that I was long overdue to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,1276,5,1375,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-oliver-bc","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}