{"id":884,"date":"2008-07-16T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=884"},"modified":"2008-07-16T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T21:00:49","slug":"lost-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Lost At Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m sure the art dealers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/16\/arts\/design\/16crui.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">this article<\/a> deals with are, in fact, scummy.  But I can&#8217;t have too much sympathy with someone who buys &#8220;fine&#8221; art on a fucking cruise ship.  With the exception of duty-free alcohol, <i>everything<\/i> on a cruise ship is way over-priced.  Next, they&#8217;ll be upset because those approved discount jewelers in Caribbean ports have way over-priced their merchandise too.<\/p>\n<p>So there is a bit of poetry in this.  Rich idiots get on a boat and act like idiots.  When Sue and I went on our honeymoon, we only spent money on one over-priced thing &#8212; a garnet that Sue really wanted.  We probably payed a lot more than it was worth, but a few dozen bucks isn&#8217;t going to keep me up at night.  I would never by fine jewelry or art from a recommended shipboard dealer.  Never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m sure the art dealers this article deals with are, in fact, scummy. But I can&#8217;t have too much sympathy with someone who buys &#8220;fine&#8221; art on a fucking cruise ship. With the exception of duty-free alcohol, everything on a cruise ship is way over-priced. Next, they&#8217;ll be upset because those approved discount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost At Sea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}