{"id":7699,"date":"2011-07-21T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/07\/21\/risk-public-ridicule-and-earn-a-hat-in-the-doing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:37:50","slug":"risk-public-ridicule-and-earn-a-hat-in-the-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/07\/21\/risk-public-ridicule-and-earn-a-hat-in-the-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk public ridicule and earn a hat in the doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"The Singlebarbed Grease Magnet\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SB_hats.jpg\" alt=\"The Singlebarbed Grease Magnet\" width=\"439\" height=\"313\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>At one point both of them were black<\/strong>. The one on the left is what I\u2019ve been wearing the last couple of years; fragrant with stale human, pomade, and insect repellant \u2013 the one on the right is clean, sterile, and looking for a home \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Them as has commented plenty are to be admired, given their penchant to lead chin first into the public space with wit, insults, and factual detail that corrects me when I get hasty or sloppy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Stephens<\/strong>, <strong>John Peipon<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Batsel<\/strong>, <strong>JP2<\/strong>, and <strong>Peter Vroedeweij<\/strong> \u2013 drop me a note with a mailing address, you\u2019ve all earned a new brim.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and yes, in polite company I\u2019ll wear a clean one, maybe \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f011820f-bfaa-485a-b28e-e8f271245484\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Singlebarbed\" rel=\"tag\">Singlebarbed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/hat\" rel=\"tag\">hat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/schwag\" rel=\"tag\">schwag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/free+stuff\" rel=\"tag\">free stuff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/brim\" rel=\"tag\">brim<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one point both of them were black. The one on the left is what I\u2019ve been wearing the last couple of years; fragrant with stale human, pomade, and insect repellant \u2013 the one on the right is clean, sterile, and looking for a home \u2026 Them as has commented plenty are to be admired, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-to-do-with-fishing","category-product","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}