{"id":555,"date":"2004-01-21T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-03-17T13:54:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:54:54","slug":"bag-o-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/21\/bag-o-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag o&#8217; tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:displayWindow('http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20040122_handbag_tour.gif',585,560)\"><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20040122_handbag.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> When I was in junior high school, I hated carrying a purse. On more than one occasion, I remember Ricky asking whether I had a Kleenex or a pen or a piece of gum. <em>Anything,<\/em> really.<\/p>\n<p>My response was always &#8220;No,&#8221; and his reply to that was usually something like, &#8220;You&#8217;re a girl. You should have these kinds of things with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can only guess that my then-teenage brother took his cues about ladies from my mother and her mother, both of whom carried their whole lives in a handbag. They were always prepared for anything.<\/p>\n<p>Sniffly? Here&#8217;s a tissue. Hungry? Here&#8217;s a candy bar. Don&#8217;t like candy bars? Have some crackers, instead.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, I realize I have become a full-fledged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerismith.com\/blog\/archives\/000054.html\" title=\"Inspired by Keri Smith\">bag lady<\/a>. If I don&#8217;t have my wallet, keys, cellphone, journal, make-up bag, pencil bag and camera with me at all times, I feel naked. Sometimes, I try to lighten my load by leaving the camera or journal at home, but those are the days that I happen to see something amazing or beautiful and I kick myself for not being able to document it properly.<\/p>\n<p>If I could stuff the whole world inside a handbag, I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in junior high school, I hated carrying a purse. On more than one occasion, I remember Ricky asking whether I had a Kleenex or a pen or a piece of gum. Anything, really. My response was always &#8220;No,&#8221; and his reply to that was usually something like, &#8220;You&#8217;re a girl. You should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}