{"id":6348,"date":"2012-01-19T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T10:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2012-01-19T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T10:44:32","slug":"balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6348","title":{"rendered":"Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to a &#8216;do&#8217; next week; it&#8217;s the Annual Event-Riders Association Ball.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I started to dig around, to make sure that I could put my hands on everything that I needed to.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;fairy-that-comes-along-and-steals-your-cufflinks-when-you-think-you-know-where-they-are&#8217; has paid a visit.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve had to buy a new pair of cufflinks. I went for these funky little black-faced babies (not a great photo; I went for black-faced cuff-links, because the studs on the front of my dress-shirt are also black-faced):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6353\" title=\"DSCN1713\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DSCN1713-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1713-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN1713-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I tried on my Dinner Suit because, you know, it&#8217;s important to check these things still fit.<\/p>\n<p>It does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6354\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6354\" title=\"DJ\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/DJ-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it, really.<\/p>\n<p>Shiny dress shoes? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner suit? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Dress shirt? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Bow-tie? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Cuff-links? Check.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m sorted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to a &#8216;do&#8217; next week; it&#8217;s the Annual Event-Riders Association Ball. Yesterday afternoon I started to dig around, to make sure that I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}