{"id":13156,"date":"2013-12-06T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T18:03:44","slug":"a-touch-of-classlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/a-touch-of-classlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Touch of Classlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean to go on about things one finds in the <em>Forbes Life<\/em> holiday gift giving guide (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/journalist-with-no-it-experience-commits-unforgiveable-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\">see also<\/a>), but they&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbeslifestyle\/2013\/11\/26\/the-holiday-eye-a-light-touch-of-velvet\/\" target=\"_blank\">$300 velvet slippers<\/a> that you can get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today\u2019s slippers announce you in a fashion far livelier than a flat-footed monogram. Go heraldic if you must, or sport the logo of dear alma mater, or your outlaw biker gang. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the ones they choose to picture are crass.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/velvetslippers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/velvetslippers.jpg\" width=\"400\" target=\"$300 crass slippers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>$300 for velvet slippers that say &#8220;Screw You&#8221;?  I am pretty sure you can get something like that at the mall in Spencer&#8217;s for $10.<\/p>\n<p>To pose <a href=\"http:\/\/captaincapitalism.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/what-would-sophia-loren-do.html\" target=\"_blank\">another man&#8217;s question<\/a> differently, would <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/going-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cary Grant<\/a> wear those slippers?  Or would Johnny Depp?<\/p>\n<p>Choose your actions and Christmas presents for me carefully.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, we won&#8217;t go into the fashion section at the end of the magazine where they put maroon trousers on a hockey player to try to convince me that&#8217;s all right.  It is as bad as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/those-who-would-be-our-betters-wear-shiny-yellow-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\">shiny yellow pants<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean to go on about things one finds in the Forbes Life holiday gift giving guide (see also), but they&#8217;ve got $300 velvet slippers that you can get: Today\u2019s slippers announce you in a fashion far livelier than a flat-footed monogram. Go heraldic if you must, or sport the logo of dear alma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13158,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}