{"id":8,"date":"2008-07-19T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/m-is-for-media-bags\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:59:00","slug":"m-is-for-media-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/m-is-for-media-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"M is for Media-Bags."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snagged three of them M-Bags at the Post Office at Fairfield, Connecticut, this morning (thanks to my pal Delyse) and discovered that the M stands for Media, as in books, files, tapes, DVDs and CDs&#8211;anything that might be classified as Media can travel across the pond at a special rate. Anything that falls outside the scope of the media as in clothes, jewlery, kitchen appliances and other doodads cost a whopping amount more to ship.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with those bags and my aforementioned boxes, I am in editing mode&#8211;weeding out the dispensables from my life and retaining the barest bones. Being the compulsive list-maker that I am, my lists are growing: Materials related to the courses I will teach, Materials related to the book I am researching, Materials related to the trips I want to take, Materials related to Pampering my inner Domestic Diva, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>Might need an M-Bag to stash all these lists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snagged three of them M-Bags at the Post Office at Fairfield, Connecticut, this morning (thanks to my pal Delyse) and discovered that the M stands for Media, as in books, files, tapes, DVDs and CDs&#8211;anything that might be classified as Media can travel across the pond at a special rate. Anything that falls outside the&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/m-is-for-media-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1933,1938],"tags":[3,2],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","category-united-kingdom","category-united-states","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochellesroost.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}