{"id":1520,"date":"2008-07-14T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:23:10","slug":"rip-olive-riley-reckitts-blue-reference-from-the-worlds-oldest-blogger-last-posting-before-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/07\/14\/rip-olive-riley-reckitts-blue-reference-from-the-worlds-oldest-blogger-last-posting-before-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Olive Riley – Reckitt's Blue Reference from The World's Oldest Blogger's Last Posting Before Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n

Kevin Walsh (Forgotten-NY<\/em>)<\/a> just forwarded me a message from Dawn Eden (formerly from NY Daily News<\/em>) about the death of an Australian woman, who apparently was deemed the “world’s oldest blogger”<\/a> by conservative blogger Duane Lester (All American Blogger)<\/a><\/em>. In Lester’s posting, he included the last posting from Olive Riley’s Blog<\/a>.<\/em> Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

In a post titled \u201cWashing Day,\u201d<\/a> Riley wrote: \u201cYou 21st Century people live a different life than the one I lived as a youngster in the early 1900s. Take washing day, for instance. These days you just toss your dirty clothes into a washing machine, press a few switches, and it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She then described how she helped do laundry as a youngster, starting with finding \u201ca few pieces of wood to fire the copper for Mum.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the water in the copper began to boil, Mum would add a cupful of soap chips, and throw in a cube of Reckitt\u2019s Blue wrapped in a muslin bag to whiten the clothes,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThen she put in all the dirty clothes, first rubbing out the stains with a bar of Sunlight soap. \u2026 that was jolly hard work.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Olive died last Saturday at a nursing home in New South Wales at age 108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Frank H. Jump Kevin Walsh (Forgotten-NY) just forwarded me a message from Dawn Eden (formerly from NY Daily News) about the death of an Australian woman, who apparently was deemed the “world’s oldest blogger” by conservative blogger Duane Lester (All American Blogger). In Lester’s posting, he included the last posting from Olive Riley’s Blog. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[513,643,1192,1281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eulogies","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-photography","category-reckitts-blue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}