{"id":579,"date":"2016-06-03T00:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=579"},"modified":"2016-06-03T01:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:04:47","slug":"impulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Impulses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/2016\/05\/26\/things-i-love-thursday\/\">A dormant hobby<\/a>? Did I say that watching vintage bags on eBay would be a <em>dormant<\/em> hobby? I was wrong. That was a week ago, and a week ago I was young and naive\u00a0to have thought that watching beautiful things on eBay get sold to other people was an enjoyable, passive activity.<\/p>\n<p>What was I thinking?<\/p>\n<p>I discovered a new impulsiveness. One you would only understand if you&#8217;ve ever watched the last 30 minutes of an online auction. It was almost as gripping\u00a0as an episode of Game of Thrones (Season 2).<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is&#8230;as the number on the countdown clock drew nearer, a\u00a0different kind of fear gripped me &#8211; <em>what if I win<\/em>? And then panic,\u00a0<em>what if someone outbids me and my bid gets\u00a0pushed to my maximum bid?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nobody did.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now waiting for the arrival of my new most expensive not-so-new\u00a0bag.<\/p>\n<p>Even though a sturdy\u00a0plastic bag could probably do as good a job of holding my wallet and my phone.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dormant hobby? Did I say that watching vintage bags on eBay would be a dormant hobby? I was wrong. That was a week ago, and a week ago I was young and naive\u00a0to have thought that watching beautiful things on eBay get sold to other people was an enjoyable, passive activity. What was I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}