{"id":1905,"date":"2010-03-11T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2010-03-11T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:09:12","slug":"sharpdressed_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/11\/sharpdressed_man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp-Dressed Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ducked out of my office for a few minutes this afternoon to grab a sandwich, and while I was walking the mean streets of Salt Lake City, I happened to encounter a guy who is sadly all too exemplary of people&#8217;s fashion sense these days.<br \/>\nHe had a full beard, but a shaved head, so his sideburns rose up alongside his ears and then just&#8230; <i>stopped<\/i>. He wore an Army-surplus field jacket; knee-length cut-off jeans with frayed leg openings; and black athletic shoes with what appeared to be black Lycra leggings, or possibly pantyhose. And he didn&#8217;t appear to be homeless, either. He was striding along as happily and confidently as any runway model.<br \/>\nNow&#8230; I have an allergy to neckties, I don&#8217;t even own a suit, and I&#8217;ve long maintained that I was lucky to be born well after that era when men couldn&#8217;t leave the house without a hat. But there are days when I really wish I saw fewer people who looked like my chrome-domed-but-bearded friend and more who looked like <i>this<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cary-grant.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/cary-grant.jpg\" width=\"485\" height=\"598\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to elegance, people? Or dignity? Or just plain looking in the mirror before you leave the house? I think I&#8217;m going to go watch <i>North by Northwest<\/i> now and try to drive the image of those weirdly freestanding sideburns from my head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ducked out of my office for a few minutes this afternoon to grab a sandwich, and while I was walking the mean streets of Salt Lake City, I happened to encounter a guy who is sadly all too exemplary of people&#8217;s fashion sense these days. He had a full beard, but a shaved head, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}