{"id":979,"date":"2008-02-04T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2008-02-04T01:22:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:22:29","slug":"mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in Bangkok hunting for a very specific knock-off purse that Bella wanted but never really came close. That is, she wanted a large slouchy Coach purse and I brought her schoolgirl-style Louis Vuitton bookbag. The thing is, while street shopping in Bangkok can be wondrous and surprising, it is not great for looking for specific items, especially designer purses from <i>this<\/i> season.<\/p>\n<p>But, the Los Angeles fashion district (Wall and 11th) coughed up what we were looking for. Besides which, I think the girls didn&#8217;t hate the Murakami show at the Geffen &#8211; and that&#8217;s pretty good considering we spent 1 1\/2 hours there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_3379.jpg\" border=\"2\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">The fake purse pictured cost $35 of Bella&#8217;s own hard-earned babysitting cash. We learned belatedly that we could have gotten a better deal, but she was afraid we wouldn&#8217;t see that style again. (Of course we saw it at a dozen more stores before the day was through&#8230;) We found it on Santee Alley, just south of Olympic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in Bangkok hunting for a very specific knock-off purse that Bella wanted but never really came close. That is, she wanted a large slouchy Coach purse and I brought her schoolgirl-style Louis Vuitton bookbag. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=979\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mothering","category-socal-attractions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}