{"id":112,"date":"2004-08-12T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/12\/shop-till-i-drop"},"modified":"2005-02-13T00:58:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T22:58:47","slug":"shop-till-i-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/shop-till-i-drop","title":{"rendered":"Shop till I drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought two new Kings: Salem&#8217;s Lot and Needful Things. (That means updates at <abbr title=\"The Girl Who Loved Stephen King\">TGWLSK<\/abbr>.) I was supposed to buy hard-back Song of Susannah too but I got scroogy cause I&#8217;d bought soooooo much already (nothing interesting though).<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to my grandparents&#8217;. I&#8217;m travelling by train, Pendolino, a super quick one if only it&#8217;d work this time. Last summer the mechanism that allows the train go fast was broken so it had to travel at normal speed. When the new trains first started running, a door was sucked off by the speed. Nice going. And tomorrow&#8217;s Friday 13th&#8230; Good thing I&#8217;m not superstitious. Let&#8217;s hope the person controlling the train isn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be gone for about a week, I&#8217;d imagine.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t started packing yet, and I have to wrap some books in book plastic (I don&#8217;t read paperback books (or in my case &#8220;backpack books&#8221; ) without the plastic) before I get too tired to do that.<\/p>\n<p>@ 22:45<br \/>\nJoined Words fanlisting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought two new Kings: Salem&#8217;s Lot and Needful Things. (That means updates at TGWLSK.) I was supposed to buy hard-back Song of Susannah too but I got scroogy cause I&#8217;d bought soooooo much already (nothing interesting though). Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to my grandparents&#8217;. I&#8217;m travelling by train, Pendolino, a super quick one if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fanlistings","category-miscellany","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}