{"id":205,"date":"2008-04-17T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T04:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/getting-inked\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:58","slug":"getting-inked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/getting-inked\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting inked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had my appointment today &#8211; and I ended up with not only my beautiful book fairy (drawn by my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/illuhouse.ch\" target=\"new\">Sandi<\/A>) but also with an enlargement of my first lower back tattoo. I thought I&#8217;d have to get another appointment for it, but Roger was so quick doing the little elf that I couldn&#8217;t resist the chance of getting it done in one go (plus I didn&#8217;t have to pay extra *g*). Just look at the pretty:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2419676421\/\" title=\"Getting inked by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2339\/2419676421_98449eaf8d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Getting inked\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2420490390\/\" title=\"Getting inked by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2151\/2420490390_e579e08f24_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Getting inked\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2420490850\/\" title=\"Getting inked by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3188\/2420490850_fc426047f2_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Getting inked\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thinking of getting another (probably my last) one done before I leave, a Maori design to commemorate my love for this country and this amazing year that I&#8217;m having. It&#8217;ll have to be a kirituhi (&#8220;skin art&#8221;), because true moko are tapu (sacred) and only meant for Maori, and I definitely wouldn&#8217;t want to offend. I only want a piece of New Zealand to carry with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But enough of tattoo talk, which I know isn&#8217;t for all of you (yes, I&#8217;m looking at you, Mami and Papi *g*). Yesterday I met up with Rachel, who I know from church, and we had lunch and went for a walk on Oriental Parade. We just talked and talked and had a really amazing time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2419675589\/\" title=\"Oriental Parade, Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3252\/2419675589_501af2f384_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oriental Parade, Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2419675981\/\" title=\"Oriental Parade, Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3066\/2419675981_fdc0aab06e_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oriental Parade, Wellington\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been hanging out with Meredith and with my flatmates and some of Rathy&#8217;s friends, and Janne is back in town for a couple of weeks as well. The weather is pretty miserable, especially today (it&#8217;s been raining uninterruptedly all day), but with all the socialising I&#8217;ve been doing, I don&#8217;t really mind. I&#8217;m also not really getting any uni work done, but I still have time, so I&#8217;m not stressing about it just yet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had my appointment today &#8211; and I ended up with not only my beautiful book fairy (drawn by my friend Sandi) but also with an enlargement of my first lower back tattoo. I thought I&#8217;d have to get another appointment for it, but Roger was so quick doing the little elf that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/getting-inked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting inked&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}