{"id":99,"date":"2007-04-10T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-04-10T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:49:18","slug":"bumbershoot-bullsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Bumbershoot bullsh**"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bumbershoot \" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umbrella\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bumbershoot <\/strong><\/a>as in umbrella, not the <a title=\"Bumbershoot arts &#038; music festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumbershoot.org\/\"><strong>Seattle arts &#038; music festival<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Esquire magazine\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Esquire<\/strong><\/a> magazine, <a title=\"The Proper Umbrella, according to Esquire\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/style\/style\/ESQ0407-APR_UMBRELLA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The Proper Umbrella<\/em><\/strong><\/a> for &#8220;a grown man&#8221; costs anywhere from $50 to $775. <a title=\"Brooks Brothers $50 umbrella for men\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooksbrothers.com\/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&#038;Section_Id=232&#038;Parent_Id=228&#038;Product_Id=920599\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brooks Brothers<\/strong><\/a> sells a plaid &#8216;brelly at the low end of the range. For mere multiple hundreds of dollars more, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Briggs umbrellas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukstuff.com\/briggs.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Briggs<\/strong><\/a> offers a plain, black model.<\/p>\n<p>If, as Esquire advises, an umbrella is &#8220;an investment&#8221;, okay, I can see spending $50. But $775? Are they freakin&#8217; kidding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bumbershoot as in umbrella, not the Seattle arts &#038; music festival.) According to Esquire magazine, The Proper Umbrella for &#8220;a grown man&#8221; costs anywhere from $50 to $775. Brooks Brothers sells a plaid &#8216;brelly at the low end of the range. For mere multiple hundreds of dollars more, Briggs offers a plain, black model. If, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-why-is-this-necessary-in-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}