{"id":14904,"date":"2019-10-21T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/10\/21\/moral-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:59","slug":"moral-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/10\/21\/moral-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>We bought a piece of furniture this weekend and &#8212; amazingly &#8212; managed to get it home and up the stairs into our bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We bought it from a store out of town that has an &#8220;Islander Days&#8221; sale at the end of the season. Then the furniture is just expensive instead of <em>&#8220;How much?!!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve bought a couple of these &#8220;shipwreck&#8221; pieces, which are made in Indonesia from salvaged wood. We like the colours and rough finish, and we understand that these sales are also kind of &#8220;as-is&#8221;, so there&#8217;s no going back to complain if there&#8217;s a chip or a crack.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2029\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1712\/img_8545.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But this time we got the dresser home and discovered something different:<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2030\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1712\/img_8544.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A drawer <em>full of ducks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After yesterday, the shop is closed for the winter. Now what?<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Do our fifty favourite people get a duck for Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought a piece of furniture this weekend and &#8212; amazingly &#8212; managed to get it home and up the stairs into our bedroom. We bought it from a store out of town that has an &#8220;Islander Days&#8221; sale at the end of the season. Then the furniture is just expensive instead of &#8220;How much?!!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}