{"id":1788,"date":"2006-05-18T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not naturally impulsive.<\/p>\n<p>But last week, for the upcoming cocktail party (thrown in honor of those leaving Pittsburgh), I decided to head to Walnut to find a dress.  I said to Sam, \\&#8221;I am just taking a look.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I walked into a local Pittsburgh boutique at the end of the street.  About 45 minutes later, 15+ dresses, and a very nice, pushy saleslady, I found myself handing over my American Express card to pay $120 for a nice dress.  Mind you, it was actually the cheapest dress.  My favorite one was $450, but I realized I could never justify a purchase like that to myself.<\/p>\n<p>I think I\\&#8217;ll like this dress enough to wear it often.  A birthday present to myself, right?  I love the skirt, the way it swishes.  All I need is a shawl and the music to make me dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not naturally impulsive. But last week, for the upcoming cocktail party (thrown in honor of those leaving Pittsburgh), I decided to head to Walnut to find a dress. I said to Sam, \\&#8221;I am just taking a look.\\&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}