{"id":573,"date":"2008-01-23T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=573"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:26:04","slug":"itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny\/","title":{"rendered":"Itsy bitsy teeny weeny&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI was looking (online) for a new bikini. My old one is, I think, over 10 years old. Old enough that I cannot remember how old it is!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the internet is full of totally ridiculous tiny pieces of cloth being sold as bikinis. I&rsquo;m no prude but when wearing a bikini requires not just a shaved bikini line but a shaved everything, and it looks like it barely covers the relevant body parts, the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figleaves.com\/uk\/product.asp?product_id=PF-280102003\">looks indecent<\/a>, frankly, and faintly disgusting (to the point that I don&rsquo;t want that picture on my blog). Better to go naked, then: I would prefer wholesome natural nudity to this affected &ldquo;covering up&rdquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSwimwear appears to fall into two categories. On the beach you bare everything (limited only by your notions of decency); in the swimming pool you wear a one-piece swimsuit. There&rsquo;s very little in between &ndash; very few bikinis that look like they would be comfortable and actually allow me to move as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the end I found some from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonprixsecure.com\/uk\/shop.htm?id=168442732727723734-0-4797bdb7&#038;nv=1|688|0\">BonPrix<\/a> that appear comfortable, although they do make me think of middle-aged ladies&#8230; But then again I will mostly be using mine in a middle-aged setting (in the swimming pool with Ingrid), not strutting around on the beach like a teenager, so I guess it&rsquo;ll sort of fit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking (online) for a new bikini. My old one is, I think, over 10 years old. Old enough that I cannot remember how old it is! And the internet is full of totally ridiculous tiny pieces of cloth being sold as bikinis. I&rsquo;m no prude but when wearing a bikini requires not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}