{"id":33,"date":"2005-03-24T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/24\/adventures-at-home-depot\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:23:53","slug":"adventures-at-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/24\/adventures-at-home-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures at Home Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a73\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As evident from the title of the post, I dropped by Home Depot\u00a0on the way home from\u00a0work last night to buy a filter for my shower, in furtherance of my\u00a0plan to fix my hair\u00a0(I will\u00a0wrap up this\u00a0topic soon.\u00a0 I promise!).\u00a0 Despite the title of the post however, it was\u00a0actually not at all an adventure (but now that I&#8217;ve lured you in, you&#8217;re stuck).\u00a0 It just happened to be the first time I&#8217;ve ever been to Home Depot on my own.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a huge and very intimidating space.\u00a0 And I am very small (well, I&#8217;m short anyways) and the opposite of intimidating.\u00a0\u00a0Gadgets of all sorts covered the entire surface of the huge warehouse from floor to ceiling.\u00a0\u00a0Most jarring of all was that utility took precedent over aesthetics, which is not the case in any other space I occupy.\u00a0 In fact, as a female, I&#8217;m trained to put aesthetics above almost everything else, most especially utility.\u00a0 (How else do you explain high heels?)\u00a0 You will all be relieved to know though that I only did the paralyzed doe caught in the headlights thing for a few minutes.\u00a0 After a few deep breaths and a little internal\u00a0pep talk, I\u00a0eventually recovered and even managed to wade through the murky waters of my local Home Depot, clinging to a\u00a0helpful store clerk the entire way, to triumphantly retrieve the filter.\u00a0 Even if the shower filter doesn&#8217;t work, I&#8217;m hoping my hair will be grateful I went through the effort and will stop acting up as a show of appreciation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evident from the title of the post, I dropped by Home Depot\u00a0on the way home from\u00a0work last night to buy a filter for my shower, in furtherance of my\u00a0plan to fix my hair\u00a0(I will\u00a0wrap up this\u00a0topic soon.\u00a0 I promise!).\u00a0 Despite the title of the post however, it was\u00a0actually not at all an adventure (but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-la","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}