{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-17T05:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/suitcases\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T17:35:15","slug":"suitcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/suitcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people all have identical black fabric suitcases?\u00a0 It's an invitation to have everyone else who has one to pull it up, check it, and then dump it violently back on the carousel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/img_0495-small.jpg\" title=\"Suitcases in the boot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/img_0495-small.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Suitcases in the boot\" alt=\"Suitcases in the boot\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>I went to some effort to get my new suitcase.\u00a0 Two weeks before I left, I found a really nice polycarbonate Delsey suitcase at Dressmart in Te Rapa, but they only had them in pink.\u00a0 They said they were getting more in.\u00a0 They didn't.\u00a0 They said they had other branches in Auckland and Christchurch - both places I was going to be within the week - but they didn't know where they were.\u00a0 They called them to ask but never got an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Tried lots of other leads, to no avail. It looked like pink or nothing, until I found exactly what I wanted - in a little non-franchised suitcase store I found while walking down George Street in Dunedin with MY MUM.\u00a0 Turns out I had to go about as far south as I could before I could get my travelling companion for the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people all have identical black fabric suitcases?\u00a0 It's an invitation to have everyone else who has one to pull it up, check it, and then dump it violently back on the carousel. I went to some effort to get my new suitcase.\u00a0 Two weeks before I left, I found a really nice polycarbonate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}