{"id":380,"date":"2015-07-25T07:08:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T07:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foreigneratharvard.org\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2015-07-25T07:08:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T07:08:48","slug":"household-items","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/shopping\/household-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Household items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3A2nd_floor_entrance_of_a_Target_store%2C_Springfield_town_center.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"280\" alt=\"2nd floor entrance of a Target store, Springfield town center\" title=\"By Ser Amantio di Nicolao [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d9\/2nd_floor_entrance_of_a_Target_store%2C_Springfield_town_center.jpg\/512px-2nd_floor_entrance_of_a_Target_store%2C_Springfield_town_center.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Household items<\/strong><br \/>\nTo buy household items etc. beyond what you can get in Porter Square, you may need to pay a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertown-mall.com\/\">Watertown Mall<\/a>, with a large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\">Target store<\/a>, and many others. You can take a bus from Harvard Square there (line 70 and 70A). A closer Target store is <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/aHrLL\">in Somerville<\/a>, although it is smaller and less accessible. It&#8217;s also worth visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familydollar.com\/pages\/home.aspx\">Family Dollar<\/a> store next to the Target in Somerville. It&#8217;s the ultimate discount store.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, most stuff can be bought on Amazon (remember to sign up for Amazon Prime, free for students for 6 months &#8211; but turn automatic renewal off, or they&#8217;ll charge you once the period is over).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Household items To buy household items etc. beyond what you can get in Porter Square, you may need to pay a visit to Watertown Mall, with a large Target store, and many others. You can take a bus from Harvard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4496,"featured_media":0,"parent":128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Lylu-68","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}