{"id":307,"date":"2004-05-23T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2004-05-23T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T13:39:00","slug":"packrat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Packrat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people asked what was in the storage room visible through the window in my quarters, which were open for the holidays last year.  Well, that&#8217;s where I keep stuff that couples have asked for for their weddings, and which I think we might possibly use again someday or which have sentimental value.<\/p>\n<p>(Edited slightly)<\/p>\n<p>>look<br \/>\n[ Tvini&#8217;s Longterm Wedding Storage]<br \/>\nThis room is piled floor to ceiling with all manner of junk and treasure.  You also see a mammoth calf who is lying down, a well-built cabana boy, a playful wolf pup, a large ice sculpture of a playful penguin with a stream of ale pouring from its beak, a troll cabana girl, a net-sided crate, a wild jackal, a pack of feral dogs, a large stone fireplace, a wooly white sheep, a silky black short-haired cat, a black wolf, a festive litter draped with tiny bells and seashells, a proud centaur, a maid of honor coffer, a wrought-iron screen decorated with a pattern of musical notes, a gentle nightingale, a wedding cake in the shape of a sleeping drake curled around a magnum of champagne, a nonalcoholic bar with some stuff on it, a gem-encrusted wedding chest, a Rakash and Prydaen type food basket, a giant white piglet, a dragon dancer, a wide wood basin, a large wooden crate, six brawny Rakash, a highbacked chair gently draped with black linen with a portrait on it, (an unclaimed hope-chest), a rattan litter decorated with multicolored ribbons, a festive litter decked with gold and blood-red streamers, a sleek panther, a golden-maned lion, (another unclaimed hope-chest), a bevy of Prydaen beauties, a glossy black shrike, a broken rattan pole held up by two wooden supports, a traditional Rissan drum choir, a four-tiered wedding cake designed to resemble an eclipse, a golden ball and chain, a small mottled turtle, a huge stone hearth, a large phoenix, a heart traced in the sand, an empty high-backed chair surrounded by velvet ropes, a low silverwillow table with some stuff on it, a cloth-covered wooden crate, a cloth-covered wooden crate, an arrow-shaped sign, a chestnut centaur, a mischievous welkin, (yet another unclaimed hope-chest), a white unicorn, a sleek panther, a wooden cutout shaped like a Human man, a wrought-iron screen decorated with a pattern of musical notes, and a formal honor guard.<br \/>\nObvious exits: none.<\/p>\n<p>And the thing is, that&#8217;s still not the whole story.  There are layers on layers.  For instance:<\/p>\n<p>>look in chest<br \/>\nIn the wedding chest you see some rose petals and a tiny Gnome.<br \/>\n>look gnome<br \/>\nThe tiny Gnome looks just like you&#8217;d expect a tiny Gnome to look &#8211; except for the singed eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>I have the coolest place.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people asked what was in the storage room visible through the window in my quarters, which were open for the holidays last year. Well, that&#8217;s where I keep stuff that couples have asked for for their weddings, and which I think we might possibly use again someday or which have sentimental value. (Edited slightly) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}