{"id":216892664,"date":"2005-02-20T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/no8wire.wordpress.com\/2005\/02\/20\/locked-and-loaded\/"},"modified":"2005-02-20T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T01:51:00","slug":"locked-and-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892664","title":{"rendered":"Locked and loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I had to adopt a ruthless approach to packing in order to bring some order and reduce the weight of this morning\u2019s first attempt <i>(left) <\/i>to this afternoon\u2019s more acceptable result<i> (right).<\/i>  As well as jettisoning a pair of shoes, a travel guide and a few other bits, I bit the bullet and transferred the lovingly pressed suits and shirts to the main case so I could shed the suiter.  I\u2019m now praying for a forgiving check-in agent as I\u2019m still a shade over my limit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/luggage.jpg\" alt=\"Luggage\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/luggageafter_small.jpg\" alt=\"Luggageafter\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Well, with the bags packed and a friend offering a lift to the station later, I\u2019m off for to loaf on the couch watching a DVD and enjoy a roast dinner with the loved ones I\u2019m leaving behind for the duration.  The Man Upstairs and weather gods permitting, the next post will be from Auckland.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Doors to manual.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"1\">my lo-fi ears are listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZSearch.woa\/wa\/advancedSearchResults?songTerm=Adia&amp;artistTerm=Sarah%20McLachlan\">Adia<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZSearch.woa\/wa\/advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=Sarah%20McLachlan\">Sarah McLachlan<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to adopt a ruthless approach to packing in order to bring some order and reduce the weight of this morning\u2019s first attempt (left) to this afternoon\u2019s more acceptable result (right). As well as jettisoning a pair of shoes, a travel guide and a few other bits, I bit the bullet and transferred the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216892664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216892664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216892664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216892664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216892664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}