{"id":2996,"date":"2010-08-14T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2010-08-14T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:28:29","slug":"the-brief-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"The Brief Encounter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, as I was shopping for underwear, I noticed that one brand had an unusual package.  It was a heavy duty bag with a zipper on the top.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I bought a sports blanket that came in a heavy duty plastic bag with a zipper on the top.  I guess the idea was that you could keep the blanket in the protective bag until you needed it.  That way, it would be protected from the elements.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe the same applies to the underwear.  The briefs are kept in their protective bag, away from the elements.  That way, when you need a pair, they are clean and dry.<\/p>\n<p>But, since this was not a sporting goods store, I suspect that this was just someones idea of packaging.  And, since the briefs were on sale at the same price as the ones in the cheap plastic bags, I suspected that they were not a big seller.<\/p>\n<p>The underwear is nice but I will through the heavy duty plastic bags away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, as I was shopping for underwear, I noticed that one brand had an unusual package. It was a heavy duty bag with a zipper on the top. A few years ago, I bought a sports blanket that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-Mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}