{"id":1200,"date":"2008-02-29T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2008-02-29T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:08:52","slug":"i-cant-believe-im-writing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/02\/29\/i-cant-believe-im-writing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m writing this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s WSJ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CEO of Victoria&#8217;s Secret admitted that the brand has become &#8220;too sexy&#8221; and plans to win customers back to its core lingerie business by producing more sophisticated merchandise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, he&#8217;s right.  We get the VS catalog at home from time to time, and I flip through it quickly just to &#8220;keep up with the current trends&#8221; (Danny, I don&#8217;t think this counts as a subscription, does it?).  I have to say that things have really gone downhill since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepix4you.com\/images\/seymour1.jpg\">Stephanie Seymour<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillgoodacre.net\/pictures.html\">Jill Goodacre<\/a> days (curse you and your perfect nose and sexy NOLA accent, Harry Connick!  Ever wonder what it looks like when <a href=\"http:\/\/celebritybabies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/tony_awards_070610_110_cbb.jpg\">gods procreate<\/a>?).  It&#8217;s more like a Frederick&#8217;s of Hollywood catalog anymore.  Blech.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;ve never been a fan of all the lacy, frilly stuff.  Fortunately for me, Leah looks amazing in whatever she wears.  I came in from shoveling the sidewalk (<strong><em>AGAIN<\/em><\/strong>) this morning, and Leah was on the stair landing, raising the window shade there.  She was just out of bed so was wearing just a t-shirt and underwear, but as she reached up to grab the shade pull, her outstretched body illuminated only by the muted early light, I stopped in my tracks.  No fancy undies could ever improve upon that.*<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2023\/2299472149_fba9528579.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2023\/2299472149_fba9528579_m.jpg\" alt=\"spring\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>*I bet G.G.&#8217;s glad she got out of bed to read this today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s WSJ: The CEO of Victoria&#8217;s Secret admitted that the brand has become &#8220;too sexy&#8221; and plans to win customers back to its core lingerie business by producing more sophisticated merchandise. You know, he&#8217;s right. We get the VS catalog at home from time to time, and I flip through it quickly just to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-tmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-jm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}