{"id":243,"date":"2005-12-06T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2005-12-06T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T21:58:00","slug":"tube-top-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/tube-top-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Top 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write a post about one of my favorite topics&#8230; tube tops.<\/p>\n<p>Last week one of my blog&#8217;s regular readers decided that she&#8217;d be adventurous and wear a tube top in public for the first time. Now, it so happened that last week she had a date, and a girls&#8217; night out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Quiz:<\/span> If you had both of those activities planned for the same week, would you wear the tube top on the<\/p>\n<p>A) date<br \/>B) girls&#8217; night out<\/p>\n<p>If you said B), congratulations, you think like a woman.  But it&#8217;s the wrong answer, so you failed the quiz.<\/p>\n<p>If any of my readers work at women&#8217;s clothing stores, here&#8217;s an idea: Orientation classes for tube top purchasers. This would also be a way to generate additional sales. Once you&#8217;ve explained that tube tops are an example of dressing for men, not women, you can then sell them an additional $150 top (of the non-tube variety) to wear on girls&#8217; night. And maybe you can tack on another $150 for one of those godawful sequin purses that women think are in style this year. Not a bad idea, huh?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(Wednesday morning update) <\/span> Have just been informed that the girls got a free round of drinks sent to their table at their girls&#8217; night out.  The tube top wearer credits her outfit, and she&#8217;s absolutely correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write a post about one of my favorite topics&#8230; tube tops. Last week one of my blog&#8217;s regular readers decided that she&#8217;d be adventurous and wear a tube top in public for the first time. Now, it so happened that last week she had a date, and a girls&#8217; night out. Quiz: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/tube-top-101\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tube Top 101&#8221;<\/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\/243"}],"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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->