{"id":4403,"date":"2013-07-01T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:06:22","slug":"lust-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/lust-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Lust Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t read any further if you can&#8217;t stand someone lusting over material things. I recognize in this day and age with all the shit happening all over the world, my desire for material things that serve no other purpose but to give me a day&#8217;s worth of gratification is shallow.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, it&#8217;s ok to WANT something, it doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m actually going to shell out hard earned dollars to go get it. I&#8217;ve wanted a Porsche 911 since I was 5 years old playing with a silver <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomica\" target=\"_blank\">Porsche Pocket Car<\/a> that I lovingly took care of so it wouldn&#8217;t get any chips and dents. I wanted a Porsche all my life, but I recognize it&#8217;s unlikely I&#8217;ll ever get one.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across a couple of other crazy items that fall in this category lately. I want! \u00a0But each of these items will probably get me kicked out of the house by my wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4405\" alt=\"scrooser\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scrooser.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scrooser.jpg 575w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scrooser-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scrooser-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrooser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrooser<\/a> city scooter for instance. Yes it&#8217;s a cheesy scooter&#8230;I don&#8217;t think a human being ever looked cool shuffling around in one of these things, but something about the fat tires and the way it has a stance like a tiny motorcycle really sings to me. I think I&#8217;d risk head injuries and occasional laugh from a stranger just to have one of these things. At the time of this writing, you can still get a Scrooser for &#8220;cheap&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/905627905\/scrooser-urban-mobility?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just like how it sounds &#8220;SCROOOOOOSER&#8221;. I picture Beavis saying &#8220;Scrooser&#8221; with a German accent and then Butthead going &#8220;Uh huh huh, you said Scrooser&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4404\" alt=\"nomos-glashutte-watches\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nomos-glashutte-watches.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nomos-glashutte-watches.jpg 575w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nomos-glashutte-watches-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/nomos-glashutte-watches-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then there are watches. The most expensive watch I&#8217;ve worn for the past 8 years is a Seiko watch my wife bought for me when we were engaged that might have been a few hundred bucks. But I&#8217;ve personally never spent anything over $100 for a time-piece.<\/p>\n<p>But these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomos-glashuette.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nomos watches<\/a> are SEXY! \u00a0&#8220;I want!&#8221; was the first thing that came to my mind. Of course I search on this German website only to find that there aren&#8217;t any dealers anywhere close by I can get them. Which probably means they retail in the range of a Rolex I would assume?<\/p>\n<p>Yup, chalk these up as two more lust items I will just look longingly at in a picture and leave it at that. Oddly enough I&#8217;d probably have a bigger chance of getting that Porsche before I&#8217;d end up with the watch or scooter. I got my fingers crossed! (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blessthisstuff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlessThisStuff<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t read any further if you can&#8217;t stand someone lusting over material things. I recognize in this day and age with all the shit happening all over the world, my desire for material things that serve no other purpose but to give me a day&#8217;s worth of gratification is shallow. But hey, it&#8217;s ok to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,15,314,56,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-design","category-fashion","category-inspiration-2","category-personal","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}