{"id":13583,"date":"2015-10-09T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2015-10-09T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:54:13","slug":"a-gift-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=13583","title":{"rendered":"A gift to myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I gave a new lease of life to the last saree I bought myself, maybe around 1999. <\/p>\n<p>I picked it up from the Central Cottage Industries Emporium in Bangalore ~ mainly because the charming sales ladies, who got to be my friends over my years as Chief Sub-editor at Deccan Herald, wouldn&#8217;t let me resist it. It took three visits before I succumbed because they insisted on hiding it away from other eyes, just for me. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I invested in this all-time, all-generation classic cotton weave from Sambalpur, where I had visited the looms with my family around 1978. <\/p>\n<p>I love love love this classic Vichitrapuri cotton from Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I gave a new lease of life to the last saree I bought myself, maybe around 1999. I picked it up from the Central Cottage Industries Emporium in Bangalore ~ mainly because the charming sales ladies, who got to be my friends over my years as Chief Sub-editor at Deccan Herald, wouldn&#8217;t let me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=13583\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224],"tags":[2254,289],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13589,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}