{"id":635,"date":"2006-08-08T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/08\/i-smell-like-a-hippie\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T19:59:30","slug":"i-smell-like-a-hippie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/i-smell-like-a-hippie\/","title":{"rendered":"I smell like a hippie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been showering for three days now with some soap I picked up while buying bath stuff for Sarah, and Trish keeps telling me I smell like a hippie.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.lush.com\/cgi-bin\/lushdb\/701?expand=Soap:upd=y\">Karma soap<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lush.com\">LUSH<\/a> smells exactly like that combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nag_Champa\">nag champa<\/a> and oranges that is forever bound in her mind (and mine too, if I&#8217;m being honest) to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/album\/551867987WSfppz\">Grasshopper Imports<\/a><footnote>If you&#8217;re in Southern Ontario, you should totally stop by there&#8211;it&#8217;s on <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/photo\/551867987\/2846213270000884686zeOYUP\">that weird stretch of Highway 6<\/a>, past the mushroom farm, but before the airplane graveyard and the concrete dinosaurs. Or, if you&#8217;re going the other way&#8211;i.e. starting from Hamilton&#8211; then it&#8217;s the other way around. Of course if you&#8217;re starting from Hamilton you&#8217;ll have to work hard to miss it since you see <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/photo\/551867987\/2346688240000884686bWltsp\">the rainbow side of the store<\/a> on your way by.<\/footnote> (a.k.a. &#8220;the hippie store&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p>(I can live with that, I&#8217;d guess there are worse things in the world to remind myself of than two such essentially harmless people as Greg and <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/photo\/551867987\/2145960280000884686ILaNTP\">Angie<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s driving Trish nuts, but I do feel <em>slightly<\/em> more like there&#8217;s nothing funny about peace, love, and understanding. And tie-dye. When did I stop wearing tie-dye&#8230; I should dig out some of those shirts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve been showering for three days now with some soap I picked up while buying bath stuff for Sarah, and Trish keeps telling me I smell like a hippie. Apparently the Karma soap from LUSH smells exactly like that combination of nag champa and oranges that is forever bound in her mind (and mine too, if I&#8217;m being honest) to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/i-smell-like-a-hippie\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}