{"id":797,"date":"2009-01-27T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-01-27T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:57:06","slug":"department-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/department-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when is the last time you were in a department store??  For me it has been quite a while.  <\/p>\n<p>But the other day one of my friends told me about a store that had doc martens (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappos.com\/n\/p\/p\/7434179\/c\/71463.html\">maryjane style- my fave<\/a>) on sale for twenty bucks.  Twenty Bucks!<br \/>\nSee I have three kinds of shoes that I like to wear- UGGS, J Crew flip flops, and Doc Martens.  I&#8217;m easy that way.<\/p>\n<p>The department store was empty except for an older lady playing the piano and an older couple taking a break from their shopping (I guess) snoozing on the couch next to the piano.  The whole store smelled like 50 different kinds of perfume.  I found the clearance shoes just knowing that they wouldn&#8217;t have any in my size (my friend has delicate dainty feet and I have big old size 9 flippers) but there they were- one pair left.  I kicked off my uggs and tried them on to be sure and that&#8217;s when I realized, &#8220;hey don&#8217;t I have these shoes??&#8221;  But I bought them anyway because I quickly realized that while I already have them, I bought them when I lived in Texas- and that was how long ago???  And while I could buy some shoe polish and make them black again (instead of all scuffed up) it was much easier to fork over the twenty.  But I am lazy that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when is the last time you were in a department store?? For me it has been quite a while. But the other day one of my friends told me about a store that had doc martens (maryjane style- my fave) on sale for twenty bucks. Twenty Bucks! See I have three kinds of shoes that I like to wear- UGGS, J Crew flip flops, and Doc Martens. I&#8217;m easy that way. The department store was empty except for an older lady playing the piano and an older couple taking a break from their shopping (I guess) snoozing on the couch next to the piano. The whole store smelled like 50 different kinds of perfume. I found the clearance shoes just knowing that they wouldn&#8217;t have any in my size (my friend has delicate dainty feet and I have big old size 9 flippers) but there they were- one pair left. I kicked off my uggs and tried them on to be sure and that&#8217;s when I realized, &#8220;hey don&#8217;t I have these shoes??&#8221; But I bought them anyway because I quickly realized that while I already have them, I bought them when I lived in Texas- and that was how long ago??? And while I could buy some shoe polish and make them black again (instead of all scuffed up) it was much easier to fork over the twenty. But I am lazy that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}