{"id":789,"date":"2007-03-03T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/03\/damn-you-internets\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T21:30:52","slug":"damn-you-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"damn you, Internets…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m websurfing – it’s the weekend (3 day weekend, WOO WOO) and that’s just how I am. I see a pretty dress<\/a> on someone’s blog ad (RockStar Mommy? Maybe) and it catches my eye.<\/p>\n

Now I can’t stop staring at them all. So pretty. So clean, so…in my size!<\/p>\n

When was the last time I wore a dress? Even my job interview clothes are pants suits. Even my “going to a fancy restaurant” outfits are pants plus shirt.<\/p>\n

::footstomp:: but I want it soooooo baaaaad.<\/p>\n

I wish I knew why I was like this. I hate wearing dresses. But when I go clothes shopping, I love to try on dresses and imagine a different life for me, where I wear dresses and pretty shoes and (argh) pantyhose and maybe pine after Mr. Big.<\/p>\n

And you know what’s really sick? Sick AND sad?<\/p>\n

I am sorely, sooorely tempted to buy them just to try them on, and return them. Free shipping, free returns. I’d be out basically nothing, nada, zilch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m websurfing – it’s the weekend (3 day weekend, WOO WOO) and that’s just how I am. I see a pretty dress on someone’s blog ad (RockStar Mommy? Maybe) and it catches my eye. Now I can’t stop staring at them all. So pretty. So clean, so…in my size! When was the last time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-on-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}