{"id":403,"date":"2019-03-25T08:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:22:38","slug":"environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally conscious at Dempsey&#8217;s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">We conserve energy by using a heat pump to heat all water on the property. We use as many energy-saving light bulbs as possible.\u00a0All our showers are fitted with water saving shower roses. We harvest rain water for use in our laundry; we plan on having more rain tanks for harvesting of rain water to our guest rooms. We recycle: paper, plastic, tins, glass and encourage our guests to do the same.\u00a0Our garden is completely natural, we don\u2019t apply fertilisers or pesticides of any kind. <\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">We are kind to our environment and to our guests too:)<\/span>  <a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/1dempseysguesthouse-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2251\" alt=\"1dempseysguesthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1dempseysguesthouse-350x262.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/1croppedcollage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2250\" alt=\"1croppedcollage\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1croppedcollage.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>  <figure id=\"attachment_2112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2112\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/dempseys_views_23\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2112\" alt=\"Front garden at Dempsey's Guest House\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dempseys_Views_23-350x232.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front garden at Dempsey&#8217;s Guest House<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2083\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/dempseys_views_12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2083\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2083\" alt=\"'Cup of gold' flower.\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dempseys_Views_12-350x262.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Cup of gold&#8217; flower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2080\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/dempseys_views_05\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2080\" alt=\"'Camel's foot' tree.\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dempseys_Views_05-262x350.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Camel&#8217;s foot&#8217; tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2081\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/environmentally-conscious-at-dempseys\/dempseys_views_06\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2081\" alt=\"All natural at Dempsey's Guest House.\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dempseys_Views_06-262x350.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All natural at Dempsey&#8217;s Guest House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We conserve energy by using a heat pump to heat all water on the property. We use as many energy-saving light bulbs as possible.\u00a0All our showers are fitted with water saving shower roses. We harvest rain water for use in our laundry; we plan on having more rain tanks for harvesting of rain water to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,11,8,10,9,12],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-dempseys","tag-nelson-mandela-bay","tag-news","tag-port-elizabeth","tag-sights","tag-tourists","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}