{"id":7469,"date":"2021-11-22T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2021-11-22T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:21:28","slug":"on-buying-a-recliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/on-buying-a-recliner\/","title":{"rendered":"On Buying A Recliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7469\" data-postid=\"7469\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7469 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Dad&#8217;s recliner gave up the ghost so I was tasked to buy him a new one. I looked up some furniture stores online and picked out a Lazy-Boy shop not far from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stupidly arrived an hour early on a Sunday morning and thus had an hour to burn. I drove to a nearby Goodwill and perused the books. I bought <em>Homage to Catalonia<\/em> by George Orwell and <em>A History of The <\/em><em>Peloponnesian<\/em><em>War <\/em>by Thucydides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the Lazy-Boy show room. I still had 15 minutes to kill. The sex shop across the road boasted a banner that read: <em>Give the Gift of Orgasm<\/em>, but it was closed, too. So, I opened up Thucydides and started reading. It occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of recliner-buying who read Thucydides in the vicinity of a sex shop while waiting to buy a recliner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doors opened! I closed the book and entered the store. I was immediately met by an elderly white-haired man who asked how he could help me. I told him I needed a new and basic recliner for my old man and I didn&#8217;t want WI-Fi or cup-holders or space age fabrics or a remote control to operate it. I wanted a lever and two settings and I didn&#8217;t want to spend more than $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he understood. He directed me to follow him. Ten minutes later I closed the deal and was surprised how pleasant the experience turned out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delivery was set for Wednesday. I&#8217;d put the old recliner on the sidewalk and doubtless a day later I&#8217;d see a resident of the nearby homeless encampment relaxing in it. (That was a joke. It&#8217;s going to the dump.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad&#8217;s recliner gave up the ghost so I was tasked to buy him a new one. I looked up some furniture stores online and picked out a Lazy-Boy shop not far from home. I stupidly arrived an hour early on a Sunday morning and thus had an hour to burn. I drove to a nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7471,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}