{"id":200,"date":"2007-11-07T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-11-07T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T02:34:47","slug":"think-before-you-speculate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/think-before-you-speculate\/","title":{"rendered":"think before you speculate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re doing a bunch of rearranging and painting and other home improvement-type things this month, and it&#8217;s provoked yet another archaeological expedition into the closets. Break out the trowels! I think I&#8217;ve mentioned before that <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=126\">our closets are really great<\/a>: ample in both volume and number. Yes, I am indeed bragging about the closets, but we don&#8217;t have a yard, parking space or vegetable garden, so I think I&#8217;m entitled to some closet pride, doncha think?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m slightly ashamed to admit the depth of our packrattery in such a public forum, but what good is the interwebs if not for self-mockery?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found in a bedroom closet:<\/p>\n<p>2 kitchen garbage bags of styrofoam packing peanuts<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found in the front hall closet:<\/p>\n<p>1 kitchen garbage bag of styrofoam packing peanuts<br \/>\n2 boxes (each 24&#8243;x18&#8243;x11&#8243;) filled with packing peanuts<br \/>\n1 kitchen garbage bag of bubble wrap<\/p>\n<p>Let me also point out that these are the discards, the bags and boxes that are leaving our apartment very soon! This is all IN ADDITION TO the 4 bags of packing peanuts and bubble wrap that we are keeping for mailing packages.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness the mailing store a few blocks away accepts donations of packing materials. Maybe that&#8217;s the reason we kept them in the first place, unwillingness to send them to the landfill? More likely we thought we&#8217;d keep them <i>just in case<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re doing a bunch of rearranging and painting and other home improvement-type things this month, and it&#8217;s provoked yet another archaeological expedition into the closets. Break out the trowels! I think I&#8217;ve mentioned before that our closets are really great: ample in both volume and number. Yes, I am indeed bragging about the closets, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}