{"id":288,"date":"2006-01-29T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=288"},"modified":"2006-01-29T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T01:57:00","slug":"gentlemen-please-remove-your-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/gentlemen-please-remove-your-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen, please remove your hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I previously mentioned that I plan on going to &#8217;80s night at Swig tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s raining outside.  From the radar, it looks like it will slow up, but not quit raining entirely, by about 10.  Now, usually on nights like this, I put on a hat and go out anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But Swig has a policy against men wearing hats in their establishment.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they&#8217;d get rid of it.  It&#8217;s just a butt-ass stupid rule, and it&#8217;s the only thing I don&#8217;t like about Swig.  I mean, I could wear a hat down there and then take it off when I go inside, but I promise you that going in with hat-hair would look a lot more unattractive than any hat I own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood that policy.  It seems like management decided, &#8220;let&#8217;s have one arbitrary dress rule just to piss people off.&#8221;  I mean, I&#8217;ve worn a t-shirt, shorts and sandals in there (it was Memphis in May weekend and I didn&#8217;t feel like going home to change) and they didn&#8217;t mind at all.  But a hat&#8230; well, that&#8217;s just not proper.  For some reason.<\/p>\n<p>Dress codes don&#8217;t work in this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I previously mentioned that I plan on going to &#8217;80s night at Swig tonight. It&#8217;s raining outside. From the radar, it looks like it will slow up, but not quit raining entirely, by about 10. Now, usually on nights like this, I put on a hat and go out anyway. But Swig has a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/gentlemen-please-remove-your-hats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gentlemen, please remove your hats&#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\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"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! -->