{"id":254,"date":"2005-09-23T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/a-new-lease-on-life\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:59:48","slug":"a-new-lease-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/a-new-lease-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A new lease on life"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of months, clothing has been a real struggle. Not many of my existing clothes fit, and deciding what to wear everyday became hard and time-consuming. I’ve been wearing a lot of skirts because the fit is simpler and they’re more comfortable. I like to wear skirts sometimes, but I’m just not a “skirt person” who would wear them all the time.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, my whole wardrobe was renewed with the purchase of several items at the Old Navy maternity sale<\/a> (25% off everything regular price, and many further reduced items). I luckily found out about it yesterday, only three days before the end. I went right to their big downtown store and tried on a ton of things. From those, I got two pairs of pants, some shirts, a skirt (yes, one more), undies, and a jacket. Everything was on sale, so I got it all for a song.<\/p>\n

Today I’m wearing my favorite item, a pair of jeans. I can wear jeans again! This makes me so happy. I’m just mentally comfortable in them as well as physically comfortable. They’re somewhat low-rise, but still have a thick elastic band at the top instead of the usual button\/zipper. They just sit right on me, and don’t give me a baggy butt like so many other maternity pants. There’s enough stretch in the front that I’ll be able to wear them for a long time. I’m forseeing a heavy reliance on these jeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of months, clothing has been a real struggle. Not many of my existing clothes fit, and deciding what to wear everyday became hard and time-consuming. I’ve been wearing a lot of skirts because the fit is simpler and they’re more comfortable. I like to wear skirts sometimes, but I’m just not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}