{"id":149900,"date":"2025-03-22T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/end-the-scourge-of-scatter-cushions-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:21:35","slug":"end-the-scourge-of-scatter-cushions-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/end-the-scourge-of-scatter-cushions-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"End the scourge of scatter cushions | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe conspiracy to cover hotel beds and sofas so there is nowhere to sit or lie down ends here, says Marlene GodfreyFull marks to Adrian Chiles (20 March) for starting the campaign\u00a0to eliminate bedspreads and scatter cushions. I have been campaigning on this for many years. How much time have I wasted removing them from beds in hotels and rented accommodation and trying to find somewhere to put them?Once a holiday cottage owner caught me at it and agreed with me, but said the local tourist authority would not give her four stars unless she had lots of cushions. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/mar\/21\/end-the-scourge-of-scatter-cushions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">End the scourge of scatter cushions | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The conspiracy to cover hotel beds and sofas so there is nowhere to sit or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-CZK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149936,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-beer-good-for-your-gut-please-check-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":149900,"position":0},"title":"Is beer good for your gut? 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