{"id":731,"date":"2008-10-07T10:33:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=731"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:52:41","slug":"smashing-hat-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Hat Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I regret about my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/jaxon_hats_nubuck_leather_safari.html\">Jaxon safari hat<\/a> is that it's not <q>crushable<\/q> &mdash; I cannot simply stuff it into a suitcase.  So I was cruising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/\">the website of the Village Hat Shop<\/a>, whereupon I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/product2987.html\">crushable wool Aussie hats<\/a> on sale for just $15 apiece.<\/p> <p>At that price, I decided that I should get three &mdash; one for myself, one for <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a>, and one for my father.  I would also have got one for my mother, except that I don't know the size of her head.<\/p> <p>So I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/san_diego_hillcrest.html\">the local store<\/a> yester-day morning.  Unfortunately, they had none in the appropriate size in-stock, but they took my name and number, and said that they would call if they some were found in the warehouse or at one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/store_locations.html\">the other stores<\/a>.<\/p> <p>In the event, they called that after-noon to report that they now had three at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagehatshop.com\/san_diego_hillcrest.html\">the local store<\/a>, being held in my name for a few days.  I stopped again this morning, when they opened, and bought the hats.<\/p> <p>Anyway, I thought that they gave very good service on some very inexpensive hats.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One thing that I regret about my Jaxon safari hat is that it's not crushable &mdash; I cannot simply stuff it into a suitcase. So I was cruising the website of the Village Hat Shop, whereupon I found crushable wool Aussie hats on sale for just $15 apiece. At that price, I decided that I [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[364,373],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-hats","tag-village-hat-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}