{"id":1310,"date":"2008-01-01T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:12:11","slug":"my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"my bags are packed, I&#8217;m ready to go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>&#8230;well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying out this new thing, which involves shipping my luggage to my destination prior to my trip.&nbsp; I had read about it in a few places, and decided to give it a whirl this time around.&nbsp; Not for the first part of my trip, mind you, but for the second part, which involves attending a 3-day long wedding.&nbsp; Somehow, it seemed really illogical to drag an entire bag filled with fancy dresses and shiny shoes around southern India for a week and a half.&nbsp; So I&#8217;m trying this out by shipping a bag full of that sort of thing (and hair products, and cosmetics, and all of the stuff that is entirely unnecessary for the part of the trip that involves sharing a hotel room with my brother for 9 days) directly to Singapore, where it should arrive several days before me.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, everything will be fine.&nbsp; Otherwise the bride will just have to contend with my wearing shorts and flip flops to her elaborately planned 3-day long traditional hindu wedding.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll understand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;well, sort of. I&#8217;m trying out this new thing, which involves shipping my luggage to my destination prior to my trip.&nbsp; I had read about it in a few places, and decided to give it a whirl this time around.&nbsp; Not for the first part of my trip, mind you, but for the second part, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,35,86,6],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","tag-miscellaney","tag-singapore","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-l8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}