{"id":238,"date":"2011-12-04T05:37:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=238"},"modified":"2012-01-07T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T14:14:42","slug":"cardamom-air-freshner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Cardamom Air Freshner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-290\" title=\"elaichi\" src=\"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elaichi.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threw a party at my home\u00a0and\u00a0went about cleaning up the next day.\u00a0 Pulled out my new Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner and started with the living room carpet.\u00a0 I moved the red machine back and forth and watched it pick up something or the other. It\u00a0roared and whistled along.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the whole living room filled with the smell of cardamom.\u00a0 With the screaming\u00a0red machine in my hand, I stood confused for a nanosecond.\u00a0 The change in the atmosphere made no sense.\u00a0 Then it hit me.\u00a0 The vacuum cleaner had sucked in a piece of cardamom.<\/p>\n<p>My friends and I had eaten the cardamom\u00a0raw and had also used it in the\u00a0South Asian style chai tea\u00a0the previous night.\u00a0 Some guilty party had unknowingly thrown\u00a0a piece on the living room carpet in the middle of the noisy party festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Staring at the vacuum cleaner, my mind\u00a0pictured\u00a0the piece of cardamom being\u00a0split by the red machine&#8217;s power as it\u00a0was\u00a0sucked up the\u00a0cylinderical shaft.\u00a0 The\u00a0poor piece of cardamom was\u00a0forced to radiate its\u00a0aroma.\u00a0 I inhaled deeply and smiled.<\/p>\n<p>* Note:\u00a0cardamom\u00a0(called &#8216;elaichi&#8217; in South Asia) should be\u00a0bottled and sold as an air freshner.\u00a0 Need an entrepreneur to take on the idea and pitch it to Febreze et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threw a party at my home\u00a0and\u00a0went about cleaning up the next day.\u00a0 Pulled out my new Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner and started with the living room carpet.\u00a0 I moved the red machine back and forth and watched it pick up something or the other. It\u00a0roared and whistled along. Suddenly, the whole living room filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,68],"tags":[157,156,158,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}