{"id":589,"date":"2006-08-25T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2006-08-25T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T11:49:00","slug":"bad-sweater-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/bad-sweater-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad sweater day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no comment game today. Sorry about that. I can never tell if you are playing along because you&#8217;re humouring me, or if you genuinely like those things. Let me know if you really enjoy them, and I&#8217;ll find some more.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, there&#8217;s not much else today. It&#8217;s been a long week and my brain is pretty much fried this morning. That, and I&#8217;m having a bad sweater day, and I&#8217;m feeling peevish about it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have clothing that pisses you off? I&#8217;ve had this sweater for (stops to count on fingers) way too long. Maybe six or eight years? And I can&#8217;t stand it. It&#8217;s acrylic, which makes my skin hot &#8211; not to mention the static cling factor, and it&#8217;s a litte bit fuzzy, which is kind of annoying in a tickly sort of way, and it&#8217;s cut about an inch and a half too short, so that it makes my belly look like a third boob hanging a little too low.<\/p>\n<p>So why am I wearing it? Because when I look at it on the hanger, it&#8217;s a lovely sweater. It&#8217;s a nice light knit in a creamy white. I love the neckline and the way it hangs. It is in theory a perfect light low-maintenance sweater for summer, but in actual practice, it feels yucky and is very unflattering on me. And I cannot reconcile these two views of the same sweater, so I leave it hanging in the closet year after year, and about every six months it finally wears me down enough that I pull it off the hanger and try it on, and usually, like this morning, I&#8217;m only considering it because I&#8217;m already late and short on choices and don&#8217;t have time to iron anything else, so by the time I get it on and realize how much I can&#8217;t stand it I&#8217;m already late for the bus and I have to run so there&#8217;s no time to switch it for a less offensive sweater. And then I spend the whole ride into town on the bus sulking about being duped into wearing my bad sweater and scheming about how I can find a spare minute to sneak into the Rideau Centre to buy another shirt just so I don&#8217;t have to put up with this annoying fucking sweater any longer than I have to.<\/p>\n<p>That happens to you too, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no comment game today. Sorry about that. I can never tell if you are playing along because you&#8217;re humouring me, or if you genuinely like those things. Let me know if you really enjoy them, and I&#8217;ll find some more. Then again, there&#8217;s not much else today. It&#8217;s been a long week and my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/bad-sweater-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad sweater day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}