{"id":30954,"date":"2015-11-24T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30954"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:40:02","slug":"almost-as-good-as-skymall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/almost-as-good-as-skymall\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost as Good as SkyMall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/better-than-a-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday<\/a>, I said getting catalogs in the mail isn&#8217;t as fun as getting a letter.\u00a0 I realized how wrong I was when I got this catalog from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsandpieces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bits and Pieces<\/a>. Who wouldn&#8217;t want these sneaker socks?!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30955\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30955\" class=\"wp-image-30955\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/socks.jpg\" alt=\"socks\" width=\"498\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/socks.jpg 1216w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/socks-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/socks-1024x995.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special delivery for FitzRoy!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bits and Pieces says, &#8220;These novelty sneaker socks are printed to resemble popular hi-tops that cool kids have been wearing since the 1920s.&#8221; They&#8217;re normally $12.99, but they&#8217;re on sale for $9.99, and they come in black too.<\/p>\n<p>What I really want, however, are the slippers. &#8220;You&#8217;ll get a kick out of these super cool sneaker slippers!&#8221; says Bits and Pieces with enthusiasm. Yes, Bits and Pieces! Yes, I&#8217;m getting a kick out of them!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30956\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slippers.jpg\" alt=\"slippers\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slippers.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slippers-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/teenage-dream-converse-ultra-high-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Converse<\/a> thinks of this kind of thing. Maybe I should grab the slippers for the special value price of $19.99 before Bits and Pieces gets busted! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I said getting catalogs in the mail isn&#8217;t as fun as getting a letter.\u00a0 I realized how wrong I was when I got this catalog from Bits and Pieces. Who wouldn&#8217;t want these sneaker socks?! Bits and Pieces says, &#8220;These novelty sneaker socks are printed to resemble popular hi-tops that cool kids have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/almost-as-good-as-skymall\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,320,508],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accessories","8":"category-holiday-gift-ideas","9":"category-humor","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30966,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions\/30966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}