{"id":336,"date":"2018-08-18T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T08:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2018-08-18T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T08:09:40","slug":"fuller-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Fuller Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFuller\u201d wasn\u2019t a description of the bristles, but the last name of the company\u2019s founder, Alfred Carl Fuller (1885-1973). A self-described country bumpkin. Fuller grew up on a farm in Welsford, Nova Scotia. His career started disastrously: as a trolley conductor, he was fired for derailing the car, and his own brother fired him from his job as an express wagon driver because he delivered packages to the wrong people. Fuller didn\u2019t do as badly selling brushes door-to-door, though, so he borrowed $75 and started his own brush company. He sold everything from scrubbing brushes to hairbrushes. Eventually, he hired a fleet of traveling salesmen who became so famous they inspired two movies: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fuller Brush Man, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with comedian Red Skelton and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fuller Brush Girl, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Lucille Ball.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFuller\u201d wasn\u2019t a description of the bristles, but the last name of the company\u2019s founder, Alfred Carl Fuller (1885-1973). A self-described country bumpkin. Fuller grew up on a farm in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anna.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}