{"id":340,"date":"2010-06-08T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roderick.hostcell.net\/bike2010\/shamwow"},"modified":"2018-07-03T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T02:04:35","slug":"shamwow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/shamwow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamwow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my relentless quest for size and weight reduction, I&#8217;m considering what to take as a towel. In the past, I tried drying myself with T-shirts, but found that it didn&#8217;t work very well. I need a dedicated towel. What could I use that&#8217;s small and light?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/files\/2010\/06\/shamwow.jpg\" height=\"500\" width=\"487\" alt=\"shamwow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the local flea market, they were selling Shamwows at 3\/$5, or $2 each. I got one, and plan to use it as my towel. Actually, I cut it in half, to make a towel 14&#8243; x 20&#8243;. &#8220;Made in Germany&#8221; is stamped right on the towel. And you know the Germans make good stuff.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/files\/2010\/06\/DSCI3830s.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" alt=\"DSCI3830s.JPG\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regular towel on left, hand towel in middle, Shamwow on right<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My friend Ahmad advised me never to try something for the first time on a major trip. Respecting that wisdom, I&#8217;ve been using this half-Shamwow as my bath towel for the past few days. It seems to be enough. My trick after a shower is to ruffle my hair to get most of the water out, then squeegee as much water as I can off my skin using my hands. That leaves only a little bit of moisture for the Shamwow to pick up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/files\/2010\/06\/DSCI3831s.jpg\" height=\"768\" width=\"600\" alt=\"DSCI3831s.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are only two drawbacks that I can think of for now:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>It&#8217;s too small, too thin, and too stiff to use as a wrap for warmth; and<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It&#8217;s too small to wrap around myself to walk around after a shower, unless I want to give someone an unexpected thrill (or unexpected laugh).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my relentless quest for size and weight reduction, I&#8217;m considering what to take as a towel. In the past, I tried drying myself with T-shirts, but found that it didn&#8217;t work very well. I need a dedicated towel. What could I use that&#8217;s small and light? At the local flea market, they were selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}