{"id":175,"date":"2008-06-14T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/06\/not-cut-out-for-fancy-living.html"},"modified":"2008-06-14T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T19:16:00","slug":"not-cut-out-for-fancy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/06\/not-cut-out-for-fancy-living.html","title":{"rendered":"Not Cut Out for Fancy Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a few days of being pampered in probably the fanciest schmanciest hotel<\/a> I will ever stay in, I’m back at home. Home, where nobody comes to hang fold my towels for me or re-make my bed, or straighten the book I’d left on the night-stand so that it’s edges lined up perfectly with the edge of the nightstand and so that it was evenly spaced between the iPod-dock\/clock-radio and the glass art that also functioned as a reading lamp. Nobody here hangs a newspaper on my door every morning, or wipes down the vanity and mirror every day, or tells me that by touching the “help” button on the phone I can have my choice of hard, medium, or soft pillows, or order up an iPod prefilled with my favorite genre of music, or request the holy book of any one of 6 major religions. And, of course, there is no spa downstairs here at home. Not that I available myself of the spa’s services at the hotel. But I could have.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, at home I don’t have to wonder if the maid will think that I don’t belong here because I brought drugstore make-up. I won’t feel tempted to use a wash cloth just so she’ll know I took a shower. And I don’t feel tempted to tuck my plane-ride-novel (a spy thriller) out of sight in the darker recesses of my suitcase, hoping to prevent anyone from gossiping about that girl in 2310 who has no taste in fiction.<\/p>\n

Also, I’m not feeling very well today, and it’s much better to be under the weather in your own home, no matter how unartistic and unpampery that home is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a few days of being pampered in probably the fanciest schmanciest hotel I will ever stay in, I’m back at home. Home, where nobody comes to hang fold my towels for me or re-make my bed, or straighten the book I’d left on the night-stand so that it’s edges lined up perfectly with the … Continue reading Not Cut Out for Fancy Living<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}