{"id":9,"date":"2005-04-14T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2005-05-01T02:10:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T07:10:59","slug":"good-riddance-to-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/good-riddance-to-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Good riddance to that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some clothes online a couple of hours ago.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve desperately needed to do for months, and I&#8217;m sure everyone at work will be relieved that they won&#8217;t have to see me walking around with shirts that are fraying at the edges and pants with a hole in the back pocket.  No one&#8217;s said anything, but they&#8217;d have to be blind not to notice.  Yes, I&#8217;m that kind of person.  I don&#8217;t care about stupid practical things like clothes, so I put off dealing with them until it becomes a dire necessity.  But as part of my new program of ordering my life, I have dealt with them.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>thought<\/em> buying clothes online would be easier than buying them from a store, since I wouldn&#8217;t have to wander around futilely looking through messed up piles of dress pants for something my size.  And it probably would have been easier if I had lots of money for clothes.  But instead I spent two or three hours hunting through the random assortment of rejects that end up on discount shopping sites.  It was educational, though.  I learned some new words like twill and chino, and I found out the difference between fiber and fabric, which seems obvious now that I know, but I always thought of polyester and cotton as fabrics.  I ended up ordering my pants from Blair and my shirts from Sears, both on sale.  I had never even heard of Blair, but they seem to be a major retailer.<\/p>\n<p>So now I don&#8217;t have to think about <em>that<\/em> anymore, at least until next year.  That sure has been weighing on my mind.  It&#8217;s such a relief, in fact, that it&#8217;s completely cleared my mind.  I can&#8217;t think of what I have next on my list of boring practical things to do.  Not that I&#8217;m motivated to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some clothes online a couple of hours ago. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve desperately needed to do for months, and I&#8217;m sure everyone at work will be relieved that they won&#8217;t have to see me walking around with shirts that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/good-riddance-to-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}