{"id":4625,"date":"2015-12-02T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2016-09-08T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:36:08","slug":"a-solution-to-a-sticky-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-solution-to-a-sticky-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solution to a Sticky Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciate my landlady&#8217;s effort in putting some comfier seating in the house this winter. But faux leather is rather sticky in this climate. So I&#8217;ve been meaning to cover the chair with <em>something<\/em>. I priced sheets, fabric, table cloths, even curtains.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I decided that I wanted one of the rougher machine woven traditional Mexican blankets, preferably in purple, to sort of match my kitchen curtains. I laughed when I priced one in the Golden Zone at a whopping $200, best price $170. I was offered a slightly better price of $160 firm at the Mercado here and $140 firm in Durango. So yesterday, I ran into the beach blanket vendor here on Isla and made an appointment to check out his wares today.<\/p>\n<p>I came home with this for $100:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0896\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0896-619x619.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who you know is important!<\/p>\n<p>I almost peed myself laughing when another vendor ran up to him and told him to stop bothering me because I&#8217;m an Islander and he retorted, &#8220;She&#8217;s my friend! We made a date for this!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciate my landlady&#8217;s effort in putting some comfier seating in the house this winter. But faux leather is rather sticky in this climate. So I&#8217;ve been meaning to cover the chair with something. I priced sheets, fabric, table cloths, even curtains. Finally, I decided that I wanted one of the rougher machine woven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}