{"id":4909,"date":"2010-07-30T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:07:58","slug":"i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4909 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/attachment\/4910\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/attachment\/4911\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao2_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/attachment\/4912\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao3_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tumblr_l6dnnbfJDy1qcztaao3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have conflicting obsessions. I like to buy new things, but I don&rsquo;t like things to be *new*. I greedily stockpile new pencils, but I use old ones that are knobbly and chewed. I buy new notebooks, but I write and draw on scraps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&rsquo;ve been buying journals and customising them so they feel like &ldquo;mine&rdquo;. Then I can scribble to my heart&rsquo;s content. These are blank Moleskine journals, with animal drawings on the cover in ink, graphite and white pencil.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have conflicting obsessions. I like to buy new things, but I don&rsquo;t like things to be *new*. I greedily stockpile new pencils, but I use old ones that are knobbly and chewed. I buy new notebooks, but I write and draw on scraps.\u00a0 Lately I&rsquo;ve been buying journals and customising them so they feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-have-conflicting-obsessions-i-like-to-buy-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,291,47],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-drawing","tag-moleskine","tag-sketchbook","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}