{"id":22212,"date":"2014-03-27T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=22212"},"modified":"2014-03-27T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:30:09","slug":"tips-to-help-your-iron-last-longer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=22212","title":{"rendered":"Tips to Help Your Iron Last Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Once upon a time, I bought a cheapo steam iron at a big box store assuming I would be lucky to get two to three years out of it.\u00a0 Well, that baby lasted <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">15 years<\/span>.\u00a0 Since I know it wasn&#8217;t because of the quality of the iron, I can only guess that the way I treated it contributed to its long and fruitful life.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22086\" alt=\"Tips to Save Your Iron\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_4913-1024x859.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_4913-1024x859.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_4913-384x323.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22090\" alt=\"Iron Tips\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-323x323.jpg 323w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-110x110.jpg 110w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips-275x275.jpg 275w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Iron-Tips.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">I buy distilled water by the gallon and just keep it in the laundry room so it&#8217;s available when I need to iron.\u00a0 Pouring out the water after I finish ironing takes away the chance of any sediments collecting in the water chamber.\u00a0 I hate the smell of vinegar, but evidently, mixing it with some distilled water and running it through a steam iron cleans out all of the built-up gunk on the inside.\u00a0 I do it twice a year (when you change the clocks in the spring and fall is a good time).\u00a0 We hope these tips help give your iron a long and productive life.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Take care.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I bought a cheapo steam iron at a big box store assuming I would be lucky to get two to three years out of it.\u00a0 Well, that baby lasted 15 years.\u00a0 Since I know it wasn&#8217;t because of the quality of the iron, I can only guess that the way I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22215,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions\/22215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}