{"id":52940,"date":"2016-07-19T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/52940\/tuesday-hack-household-tricks-with-salt\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:20:50","slug":"tuesday-hack-household-tricks-with-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/07\/19\/tuesday-hack-household-tricks-with-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday hack: Household tricks with salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Alternate ways to use salt around the home<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If something has melted on your iron, turn it on to high and let it warm up. Sprinkle a generous amount of salt onto some wax paper. Move the iron back and forth on the salt for about a minute to remove the substance.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve caused a grease fire in a pan, pour salt onto the flames. The salt will smother the flames.<\/li>\n<li>To clean a drain, mix equal amounts (1\/4 cup) of salt and bicarbonate of soda and pour down the drain. Pour a 1\/2 cup of white vinegar down the drain. The reaction will cause the solution to foam up. Boil a pot of water and pour the water down the drain as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pPSb3Nzk0Og' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From cleaning your iron to cleaning your drain &#8211; here are some things you can do with salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":52941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[5295,5296,5297],"class_list":["post-52940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-7-household-tricks-with-salt","tag-7-salt-life-hacks","tag-7-things-you-can-do-with-salt"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["7 household tricks with salt","7 salt life hacks","7 things you can do with salt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}