{"id":167,"date":"2004-11-03T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T06:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-01-29T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T06:28:46","slug":"on-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"On shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a bloke I really enjoy shopping – including the usual weekly food, loo rolls and detergent etc – it’s always a bit of a challenge to find which are genuine specials and which are fakes. Shopping centres are a bit like contemporary fashion museums too, so I can window shop for ages musing on the potential uses for strange objects and marvel at the very idea of some poorly made or designed item actually attracting a buyer!<\/p>\n

I agree with some commentators that it must have something to do with the hunter-gatherer instinct<\/a> and tracking down a bargain is all part of the fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a bloke I really enjoy shopping – including the usual weekly food, loo rolls and detergent etc – it’s always a bit of a challenge to find which are genuine specials and which are fakes. Shopping centres are a bit like contemporary fashion museums too, so I can window shop for ages musing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}