{"id":4222,"date":"2017-04-05T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2019-07-29T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T21:00:36","slug":"postcards-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/postcards-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forbearing Husband and I are away from home, practicing at being big-city people for a few days. It is\u00a0quite a change of pace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4238\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs4-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs4-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City sights<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The apartment we are staying in has full length windows. Opposite and about 10 metres away is another apartment block. It also has full length windows, and they look directly into ours.<\/p>\n<p>On our first night\u00a0the Forbearing Husband and an unsuspecting city neighbour locked eyes across that ten metre gap. As she hurriedly put her blinds down, Forbearing Husband, just out of the shower, fumbled for some underwear. He later reflected that city folks have curtains for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>So far though no arrests for indecent exposure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4242\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs2-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs2-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Messing around on trains. Fully clothed this time.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4233\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs7.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Melbs7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City cowboy boots.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forbearing Husband and I are away from home, practicing at being big-city people for a few days. It is\u00a0quite a change of pace. The apartment we are staying in has full length windows. Opposite and about 10 metres away&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/postcards-from-afar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-away-from-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}