{"id":15245,"date":"2016-09-28T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15245"},"modified":"2016-09-28T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:26:01","slug":"packing-it-up-or-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15245","title":{"rendered":"Packing it up (or down)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For kicks tonight, I thought I&#8217;d try one of the compression packs I got awhile ago. One thing I learned during last year&#8217;s trip (right after &#8211; don&#8217;t over pack!) was that having to repack your jumbled up stuff all the time in order to find what you need is a pain in the patootie. So I thought I&#8217;d give these a try. My carry-on-sized bag came with two mesh zip packs too but these promise to make things smaller if needed. <\/p>\n<p>In went a week of undies and a slip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1.jpeg\" title=\"In went the stuff, pen for comparison\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1.jpeg 3024w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bag has a partial zipper to provide an opening. Then there&#8217;s another zipper that goes all the way around and snugs down the edges and therefore the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2.jpeg\" alt=\"when you zip up the second zipper - voila compression.\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2.jpeg 2744w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/compress2-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For kicks tonight, I thought I&#8217;d try one of the compression packs I got awhile ago. One thing I learned during last year&#8217;s trip (right after &#8211; don&#8217;t over pack!) was that having to repack your jumbled up stuff all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8,13,765,166],"tags":[202,573,279],"class_list":["post-15245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-list","category-do-the-work","category-journey-to-wales","category-travels","tag-dothework","tag-travels","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3XT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15249,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions\/15249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}