{"id":347,"date":"2012-01-16T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-01-16T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T07:55:53","slug":"bummer-of-a-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Bummer Of A Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been cheerier summers here in Wellington. This year, summer weather seems to be cancelled<\/a>, Blanket Man<\/a> is dead, another dead body disrupted the Harbourside Market <\/a>on Sunday, and National is getting ready to privatize half the government offices.<\/p>\n

At Wazzer’s job, Chelsea, the trim blonde waitress, is asking if Wazzer knows anyone looking for a flat mate. But the flat that Chelsea is seeking is elusive this year. Wazzer’s not much help. “Ram knows a guy, Gerard, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mature classical musician. Okay, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 58-year-old timpanist. And a friend of my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Hazel, is looking for someone. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Northland. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also about to have a baby, on her own.”<\/p>\n

Chelsea shakes her head. “Yeah, but no. Hey, did you hear? The Garden Club,” the venue for every mildly entertaining independent dance event, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has been sold. To a big chain of strip clubs<\/a> based in Auckland. You think I could be a stripper? I could make enough money for a flat of my own, then.”<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lookswise, totally. But who goes to a strip club when prostitution is legal? Except as a way to say they were ‘just’ at the strip club? If there were any money in stripping in Wellington, I’d know people who did it. Like with being a legal hooker. But I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know any strippers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Chelsea gapes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You mean you know people who \u00e2\u20ac\u201c-”<\/p>\n

Then the kitchen yells “Order up!” and Chelsea whirls away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been cheerier summers here in Wellington. This year, summer weather seems to be cancelled, Blanket Man is dead, another dead body disrupted the Harbourside Market on Sunday, and National is getting ready to privatize half the government offices. At Wazzer’s job, Chelsea, the trim blonde waitress, is asking if Wazzer knows anyone looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shortfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}