{"id":113,"date":"2006-04-10T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-04-14T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:37:28","slug":"the-ambasciatori-but-not-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/the-ambasciatori-but-not-now\/","title":{"rendered":"the ambasciatori &#8211; but not now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City work means city pay.  That&#8217;s a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;ve been up to my eyeballs in facials and Decleor.   Expensive shoes and tailored trousers.   There&#8217;s satisfaction in spending cash that&#8217;s your own. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/lakecomo1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Amalfi Coast  (c) KHolt\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-lakecomo1.jpg\" alt=\"Amalfi Coast - (c) KHolt\" \/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 27 is special for me so I&#8217;ve been liaising with my jeweler and a personal shopper at Fendi.  A cushion cut rock (something blue me thinks) or a bag-and-more.   What to do?<\/p>\n<p>I did the selfless thing (which, to be honest, I had always planned to do) and chose the Italian Riviera &#8211; because <a href =\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/a-stranger-with-no-wife\"target=_blank> Tall Dark &#038; Handsome<\/a> has a thing for Italy and May 27 isn&#8217;t just about me. <\/p>\n<p>Then Saturday came.  And with it, a tax bill&#8230;..with four zeros on the end&#8230;..count &#8217;em&#8230;.four&#8230;..before the decimal.  <\/p>\n<p>The Riviera will have to wait.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City work means city pay. That&#8217;s a good thing. This month I&#8217;ve been up to my eyeballs in facials and Decleor. Expensive shoes and tailored trousers. There&#8217;s satisfaction in spending cash that&#8217;s your own. May 27 is special for me so I&#8217;ve been liaising with my jeweler and a personal shopper at Fendi. A cushion<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}