{"id":7236,"date":"2012-04-10T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2012-04-10T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:55:31","slug":"dressing-up-and-getting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7236","title":{"rendered":"Dressing Up and Getting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Language is a code, and if we have the key, we have perfect understanding.<\/p>\n<p>But when someone says to you that the dress code for a party is &#8216;smart casual&#8217;, what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously, what does &#8216;smart casual&#8217; mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some supplementary information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the hostesses birthday party<\/li>\n<li>The venue is in a smart room<\/li>\n<li>In a palace<\/li>\n<li>The hostess has picked out a LBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even taking the &#8216;smart room&#8217; and &#8216;palace&#8217; out of the equation, for a moment, if the hostess has picked out a LBD, what the hell is &#8216;smart casual&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>I have spent the last few hours looking at my dinner suit\/dress shirt.<\/p>\n<p>I know it isn&#8217;t &#8216;casual&#8217;, but it is &#8216;smart&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, why is this so difficult?<\/p>\n<p>I bought a new pair of &#8216;smart casual&#8217; trousers on Saturday, and wore them out to dinner last night.<\/p>\n<p>I looked like someone who worked in Carphone Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Smart casual?<\/p>\n<p>Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you are my only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language is a code, and if we have the key, we have perfect understanding. But when someone says to you that the dress code for<\/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-7236","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\/7236","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=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}