{"id":31,"date":"2005-03-21T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/21\/stop-me-before-i-shop-again\/"},"modified":"2006-06-24T19:25:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T02:25:45","slug":"stop-me-before-i-shop-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/21\/stop-me-before-i-shop-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Me Before I Shop Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invite me to something &#8211; I have a lot of cute new clothes I need to wear.\u00a0\u00a0Went on a massive shopping spree with my sister this weekend.\u00a0 Massive.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what happened.\u00a0 Maybe the stars were all in alignment and Mercury was in retrograde or something, but I didn&#8217;t see an item I didn&#8217;t like.\u00a0 The best excuse I could come up with was that I&#8217;m going to Cabo in May and Vegas in June&#8230;and\u00a0 therefore must buy clothing two months in advance?\u00a0\u00a0In a rare show of self-restraint however, I did hold off on buying a sixth swimsuit.\u00a0 I figured the five I have sadly stuffed in a drawer at home were sufficient.\u00a0 I&#8217;m now nervously awaiting the finally tally to show up on my credit card statement.\u00a0 Thankfully, I&#8217;m atrocious at math and lost track of how much I was spending three stores into the spree, thus allowing me to continue spending recklessly and relatively guilt-free.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case anyone was anxiously wondering about the fate of the gold clutch I&#8217;ve been talking about forever (as I&#8217;m sure you all were), I finally bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bananarepublic.com\/browse\/product\/292\/product_292203.htm?cs_catalog=BR%5FSpring2%5F3%5F2005&amp;cs_category=400401\">one<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s actually\u00a0bronze, but close enough.\u00a0 It also shimmers and looks much better than in this picture!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bananarepublic.com\/browse\/product\/534\/mip_5341902.htm?cs_catalog=BR%5FSummer1%5F2005&amp;cs_category=4004&amp;cs_id=5341902\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/clubgrub.com\/images\/bagcrazy\/20050425c.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And despite this crass show of consumerism, I&#8217;m still trying to think of a way to contribute to the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invite me to something &#8211; I have a lot of cute new clothes I need to wear.\u00a0\u00a0Went on a massive shopping spree with my sister this weekend.\u00a0 Massive.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what happened.\u00a0 Maybe the stars were all in alignment and Mercury was in retrograde or something, but I didn&#8217;t see an item I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purses-clothes-and-shoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}