{"id":18136,"date":"2025-09-15T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18136"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:12:17","slug":"melt-the-ice-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/melt-the-ice-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Melt the Ice Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Health &amp; Environment Connection, a publication of LocalMotion &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.local-motion.org\/\">http:\/\/www.local-motion.org\/<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/\">http:\/\/www.care2.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City-dwellers know all too well the effects of salt. Although it does wonders for melting ice and snow, it wreaks utter havoc on boots, dog\u2019s paws and car paint! The damage going on behind the scenes is even more disturbing, whether in the city or the country. Read about the environmental effects of using salt to melt ice, and discover the best natural alternative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Melt the Ice Safely\" href=\"\/home-and-family\/melt-the-ice-safely\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a>\u00a0(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Health &amp; Environment Connection, a publication of LocalMotion &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/www.local-motion.org\/\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/www.care2.com\/ City-dwellers know all too well the effects of salt. Although it does wonders for melting ice and snow, it wreaks utter havoc on boots, dog\u2019s paws and car paint! The damage going on behind the scenes is even more disturbing, whether in the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}