{"id":22,"date":"2006-08-14T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:08:20","slug":"things-i-should-avoid-for-my-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Things I Should Avoid for my Own Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/blogger\/2058\/873\/1600\/microscope-faucet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/blogger\/2058\/873\/320\/microscope-faucet.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do the lovely people at <a href=\"http:\/\/la.apartmenttherapy.com\/la\/slinks\/slinksn-slingks-surreptitious-web-links-to-other-good-sites-011569\" target=\"_blank\">Apartment Therapy<\/a> know just how much time they make me waste asking myself pointless rhetorical questions? Questions that start like, &#8220;Of course I don&#8217;t need these bloody overpriced Italian faucets. Of course not. Does that make them any less cool? Should my bathroom faucets really resemble microscopes? Of course not. Is there extraneous metal used in this design? Of course. Will it make it stupendously more expensive. Of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Design websites are EVIL.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like the idea that watching too much TV really screws with your psyche because everyone looks so flawless and airbrushed and pancake made-up and well-lit? Well, I&#8217;m of the opinion that there&#8217;s a truth close to that regarding the concept of design websites&#8230; too many things come together so neatly and nicely that they give you hives when you think about your own place. And don&#8217;t get me started on home transformation shows: why can&#8217;t <em>I <\/em>ever find that perfect ticky-tacky chandelier and spray paint it for immediate classy gorgeousness at MY house? Anyone else that tries that stuff, well, it looks&#8230; a bit more crafty than artsy, perhaps? Plain tacky? I dunno&#8230; Well, I&#8217;m about to get my chance to try some &#8216;junky to funky&#8217; magic &#8230; my mother just informed me that she&#8217;s doing a big flea market thing on September 3&#8230; now let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t LEAVE more stuff there than we take away. Yeah, that would be good&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the lovely people at Apartment Therapy know just how much time they make me waste asking myself pointless rhetorical questions? Questions that start like, &#8220;Of course I don&#8217;t need these bloody overpriced Italian faucets. Of course not. Does that make them any less cool? Should my bathroom faucets really resemble microscopes? Of course not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remodel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}