{"id":2814,"date":"2013-10-24T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:32:34","slug":"something-about-an-old-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"Something About An Old Coat&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather these days has been more like November than October, so I decided to wear my winter coat. Now I get attached to things and a warm coat that works &#8211; which means&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. It has lots of pockets.<\/p>\n<p>2. It fits.<\/p>\n<p>3. It&#8217;s long enough to cover those parts of the legs that &#8220;feel&#8221; the cold.<\/p>\n<p>4. It can be buttoned up around the neck to keep out drafts.<\/p>\n<p>5. It has a hood for snow or rain.<\/p>\n<p>6. It never shows the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>7. It has lots of zippers for whatever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.is a keeper.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhSYDpHSjyJQqKjiL_NcV75VuZ_tXbl8BbhkR7FQUfTyyp9_lvJp8W21-My5UbkDohLUHWt47-jnAyvzWXIEGxsdaoR8DuxcHh0EDvC3lQ9nWBKPcDtGIp6fCLQmj-Gzgbcq0S2JA\/s320\/$20.00.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhSYDpHSjyJQqKjiL_NcV75VuZ_tXbl8BbhkR7FQUfTyyp9_lvJp8W21-My5UbkDohLUHWt47-jnAyvzWXIEGxsdaoR8DuxcHh0EDvC3lQ9nWBKPcDtGIp6fCLQmj-Gzgbcq0S2JA\/s320\/$20.00.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Pocket Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;m rushing the season. It snowed in Owen Sound, about 2.5 hours north of Toronto, yesterday. We&#8217;re next!!<\/p>\n<p>The other nice thing about old clothes, is that if you haven&#8217;t worn them for a season, you find lots of interesting &#8220;things&#8221; in the pockets. They&#8217;re like tiny time capsules of what you were doing last March, for example. Yes, I do empty my pockets from time to time and I do send the coat off to the cleaners, again, from time to time. However, although, cleanliness maybe next to godliness, there is something deliciously wicked about finding a twenty dollar bill and a liquor filled chocolate in a hidden pocket &#8211; my winter survival kit \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Nobody does old coats better than that old hat, Leonard Cohen. Here is his Famous Blue Raincoat sung by Jennifer Warnes &#8211; a little easier to listen to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<object><\/object><\/div>\n<p>\nHave a cool day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather these days has been more like November than October, so I decided to wear my winter coat. Now I get attached to things and a warm coat that works &#8211; which means&#8230;&#8230; 1. It has lots of pockets. 2. It fits. 3. It&#8217;s long enough to cover those parts of the legs that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}