{"id":863,"date":"2004-04-27T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:56:25","slug":"863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/863\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brock Sides of Signifying Nothing is a hat man<\/a>. He even mentions Mr. Hats in Memphis, which is oddly enough where I purchased my current preferred black fedora. I’ve only been to Memphis twice, but the last time I was there–some six years ago (?!) I got my Dobbs. I would have gotten it at Donge’s, in Milwaukee, but they closed down seven years ago. A pity; I had gotten my first three fedoras there.<\/p>\n

At any rate, here it is, my primary hat, worn outdoors with or without trenchcoat:<\/p>\n

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\nI wear it winter or summer, to work and to play. I’ve been wearing black fedoras for eleven years, since my years at college. Even today, should I bump into a Marquette alum of the same period, I might be recognized on the hat alone.<\/p>\n

(Oh, yeah, and to Arkansas with James Lileks, who said intemperate words about bloggers and fedoras<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Here’s my writing hat of the last few years, a brown Berlesoni I picked up at an estate sale for a couple bucks:<\/p>\n

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It has the former owner’s initials in it, WJS. I tend to wear hats while writing (I wore a cheap straw Panama hat for my first novel and this brown fedora for my second novel). Heck, I’m wearing a ball cap now (Sydney Olympics 2000, given to me by a friend who got it from a real, live Australian!<\/i>).<\/p>\n

But the brown fedora faces competition from the new beachcomber’s hat I bought in Florida this March:<\/p>\n

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I wear it, and the Sydney ball cap, as I revise novel #2, blog, and open (and close) the various and sundry inchoate essays and novels that allow me to continue my dream of being a writer.<\/p>\n

So, what are you<\/i> wearing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brock Sides of Signifying Nothing is a hat man. He even mentions Mr. Hats in Memphis, which is oddly enough where I purchased my current preferred black fedora. I’ve only been to Memphis twice, but the last time I was there–some six years ago (?!) I got my Dobbs. I would have gotten it at […]<\/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-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}