{"id":4615,"date":"2003-09-27T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-27T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2003-09-27T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-27T12:31:50","slug":"spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/09\/27\/spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this morning, I&#8217;ve spent getting on for half a month&#8217;s wages. Oops. To show for it, I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a pale charcoal grey pure wool suit, which is to be altered and will be ready on Wednesday morning. Bargain at &pound;209 from Stephen Lawrence &#8211; reduced from &pound;309.<\/li>\n<li>a shirt, also from Stephen Lawrence. &pound;59.<\/li>\n<li>a new pair of smart black shoes, almost boots really, from Russell and Bromley. &pound;125.<\/li>\n<li>a pair of brown nubuck boots, totally lovely and adorable, also from Russell and Bromley. &pound;140, including the insoles needed to make them fit more comfortably.<\/li>\n<li>a gift for the wedding. Value not disclosed!<\/li>\n<li>a new suitcase by Linea at Army and Navy. &pound;80. My old soft case was getting a bit battered and the zips were beginning to fail. It doesn&#8217;t really fit the modern smart business image. So I&#8217;ve got myself a smart black job, the sort that has a handle and wheels, that is slightly rigid and should prevent the contents being crushed. I&#8217;ll need to do something to distinguish it in readiness for baggage reclaim, as the world and it&#8217;s wife has black bags that look just like it. I was tempted by the silver, but I could see from the display examples that it marked very easily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Down to earth now, with a trip to Waitrose. I need to give them some money too.<br \/>\nAnd I can see why RBS Advanta have made the card with a corner cut off and transparent plastic &#8211; everywhere I went, as soon as I pulled it out of my wallet, everyone went &quot;oooh! look at that! that&#8217;s funky! I want one!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this morning, I&#8217;ve spent getting on for half a month&#8217;s wages. Oops. To show for it, I have: a pale charcoal grey pure wool suit, which is to be altered and will be ready on Wednesday morning. Bargain at &pound;209 from Stephen Lawrence &#8211; reduced from &pound;309. a shirt, also from Stephen Lawrence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}