{"id":209,"date":"2010-02-04T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-02-04T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:18:12","slug":"observations-of-minutiae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/02\/04\/observations-of-minutiae\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations of minutiae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers of toilet paper here haven&#8217;t yet perfected the art of perforations between sheets. Some sheets are very short, some are very long (within the one roll), and it is a rare day indeed when the perforations extend the whole way across the width of the roll.<\/p>\n<p>Some Ethiopian honey, when candied, has the colour and texture of earwax. I&#8217;m not sure about the taste, as I don&#8217;t like honey at the best of times&#8230; My daughter caused a small stir in class at school when she told one of her classmates that she had earwax sandwiches that day!<\/p>\n<p>Margarine here is not often refrigerated in shops. And even if it is, it most likely wasn&#8217;t on its journey here from (usually) the Netherlands, via Dubai. This means that it is as unspreadable as butter. We have taken to keeping a small container with about 2-3 days worth on the countertop, so that its not there long enough to go rancid, but at least it will be spreadable.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis are blue and white &#8211; except if you are at the airport, and then they are yellow. The streets are filled with small Russian Ladas, all painted in blue on the bottom half, and white on the top half. Most are beaten and battered, testament to the irregular driving conditions&#8230;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/taxi_with_coffin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/taxi_with_coffin.jpg\" alt=\"Addis taxi with coffin on roof\" title=\"taxi_with_coffin\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/taxi_with_coffin.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/taxi_with_coffin-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/taxi_with_coffin-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addis taxi with small coffin on roof<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers of toilet paper here haven&#8217;t yet perfected the art of perforations between sheets. Some sheets are very short, some are very long (within the one roll), and it is a rare day indeed when the perforations extend the whole way across the width of the roll.<\/p>\n<p>Some Ethiopian honey, when candied, has the colour [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}