{"id":14470,"date":"2015-05-17T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14470"},"modified":"2015-05-17T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T21:44:03","slug":"i-admit-i-laughed-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/17\/i-admit-i-laughed-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"I Admit, I Laughed Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened the most recent copy of <em>Garden &#038; Gun<\/em> magazine, and I laughed out loud.  Not at the Roy Blount, Jr., humor piece it contained.  Not at a joke or intentionally humorous piece, actually.  At the ensemble in the Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/4000top.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/4000top.jpg\" width=\"420\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go ahead, if you dare, and click for full size.  Then, note in the lower left corner, this text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crop top, $3,990, and skirt, $9,700, by Zuhair Murad, at zuhairmurad.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That yellow outfit costs as much as a car.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much more expensive if the top had sleeves and covered the belly completely.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t talk, of course, as I&#8217;m a bit of a clothes horse myself these days.  Why, just two weeks ago, I bought a new shirt at Walmart for $9 because the shirts I&#8217;ve received as inheritances from my father-in-law (fifteen years ago), uncle-in-law (seven years ago), and mother (six years ago) are starting to show some wear.  And I&#8217;m outgrowing them as I continue to triumph over being underweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened the most recent copy of Garden &#038; Gun magazine, and I laughed out loud. Not at the Roy Blount, Jr., humor piece it contained. Not at a joke or intentionally humorous piece, actually. At the ensemble in the Table of Contents: Go ahead, if you dare, and click for full size. Then, note [&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-14470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470","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=14470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14473,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions\/14473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}