{"id":11983,"date":"2012-05-07T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2012-05-07T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:43:49","slug":"a-reader-finally-sees-the-light-re-tube-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/a-reader-finally-sees-the-light-re-tube-tops\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader finally sees the light re: tube tops"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been keeping up with this blog, you know that for the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to persuade one of my readers to wear a tube top. For a long time, my persuasion was unsuccessful. All I got was a ton of “I’m too pasty” excuses, and a black T-shirt. A black T-shirt with a pocket.<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday morning the text notification went off on my iPhone and I found this:<\/p>\n

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It’s a start, but the work is not complete. Kelly came up to the Blind Bear much later in the day, where I was having a PBR. She had on the tube top, and I give her props for that – I didn’t think she’d wear it out in public. However, she’s not yet a tube top superstar. A tube top superstar is the embodiment of all things tube top, the essence of tubetopness. She just isn’t there yet. I sensed discomfort with having a tube top on, and she’ll have to work on that. Fortunately, her bestie Beth is a legit tube top superstar and hopefully can serve as a mentor to Kelly.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Kelly will attain the rank of superstar by the 25th, when Tube Top Month officially begins. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been keeping up with this blog, you know that for the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to persuade one of my readers to wear a tube top. For a long time, my persuasion was unsuccessful. All I got was a ton of “I’m too pasty” excuses, and a black T-shirt. A … Continue reading “A reader finally sees the light re: tube tops”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11988,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}