{"id":12,"date":"2003-09-10T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=12"},"modified":"2003-09-10T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T09:16:43","slug":"on-delayed-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"On delayed gratification &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We picked up the package with Tage&#8217;s new clothes yesterday afternoon, and it was a bit of a disappointment.  I had ordered him seven pairs of pants and ten shirts, and although we got all the pants, we got only one of the shirts, along with a notification that all the rest were backordered and would likely be shipped the second week of November.  Of course, it&#8217;s shirts he needs most, too, and pants that he could easily have done without for a couple more months.  I wonder if I shouldn&#8217;t just cancel the rest of the order and buy him a bunch of shirts at one of the stores here.  The problem with that is twofold, though:  first, the clothes in the catalog are much cheaper than those at the store and second,  I have a charge account with the catalog company so I don&#8217;t have to come up with a bunch of money up front to shop with them.  It&#8217;s a dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of buying now and getting later, we bought a new washing machine yesterday and it&#8217;s set to be delivered tomorrow or Friday.  I&#8217;m hoping for tomorrow, since it&#8217;s been months since I&#8217;ve done a proper load of laundry.  The salesman at the appliance store was so funny&#8211; even though we told him which one we wanted as soon as he walked up to us, he stood there and gave us his whole ten-minute-long sales pitch on the washer we had picked out while we just stood there nodding.  At the end, we just said, &#8220;okay,&#8221; filled out the buy-now-pay-later paperwork and walked out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We picked up the package with Tage&#8217;s new clothes yesterday afternoon, and it was a bit of a disappointment. I had ordered him seven pairs of pants and ten shirts, and although we got all the pants, we got only one of the shirts, along with a notification that all the rest were backordered and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=12\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On delayed gratification &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}