{"id":732,"date":"2008-04-21T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/a-girl-and-a-suitcase\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:03:50","slug":"a-girl-and-a-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/a-girl-and-a-suitcase\/","title":{"rendered":"a girl and a suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m unpacking.  This means spending time with my junk.  Souvenirs.  Trinkets.  Making mental notes never to buy crap again.  Only invest in quality pieces.  You don&#8217;t go to Italy for trinkets.  You go for the food and the wine and the history.  For silks and leather and glass.  And, occasionally, for a handful of dirt from the catacombs. (I&#8217;m odd that way.)  And you don&#8217;t go to Marrakech for the crappy little slippers you can buy in the arcade.  Ughh. <\/p>\n<p>It was so much easier when it was just me and my suitcase.  When I didn&#8217;t have to worry about crystal or china or whether to buy pretty pots. <\/p>\n<p>On a separate note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/freudian-slip\/\"target=_blank>The Euro<\/a> mowed grass the other day for the first time in his life.  He&#8217;s 35.  And he gave me permission to blog that.<\/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>I&#8217;m unpacking. This means spending time with my junk. Souvenirs. Trinkets. Making mental notes never to buy crap again. Only invest in quality pieces. You don&#8217;t go to Italy for trinkets. You go for the food and the wine and the history. For silks and leather and glass. And, occasionally, for a handful of dirt<!-- 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}