{"id":1131,"date":"2011-07-05T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2011-07-05T07:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:19:45","slug":"eight-days-of-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2011\/07\/05\/eight-days-of-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Days of Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Did you pack eight days of clothes?” I asked the fair and industrious Trudy.<\/p>\n

She looked at me silently for a moment and then answered, “Yes.”<\/p>\n

I was wondering if she was thinking that we’d stop and do laundry at some point.<\/p>\n

“My suitcase isn’t large enough for eight days of clothes,” I said, regretting again that I’d bought that compact little thing instead of one size larger.<\/p>\n

She looked at me silently for a moment and then answerd, “We have lots of other suitcases and duffle bags.” And she pointed at the closet behind me.<\/p>\n

It was late. Of course, I thought to myself somewhere in the recesses of my lizard brain, we’re flying Southwest [bags fly free<\/a>].<\/p>\n

That was last night. This morning, after the mammal brain in me had a chance to sleep, when I looked at our suitcases packed full of clothes and the laundry basket filled with shoes and other miscellaneous bulky things that we are taking with us, I realized why she gave me the silent looks she did.<\/p>\n

You see, we’re not flying Southwest. And we won’t be checking any bags. … Because we’re not flying. We’re driving. And the car will have lots of room\u2014plenty of room for eight days of clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Did you pack eight days of clothes?” I asked the fair and industrious Trudy. She looked at me silently for a moment and then answered, “Yes.” I was wondering if she was thinking that we’d stop and do laundry at some point. “My suitcase isn’t large enough for eight days of clothes,” I said, regretting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}