{"id":68,"date":"2002-10-30T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:59:48","slug":"the-noose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/30\/the-noose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/damntie.jpg?resize=300%2C111\" alt=\"damntie.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is one of those days when I unhappily realize I&#8217;ve been working for the past five months at a job where I have to wear a suit and tie.<\/p>\n<p>Five days a week I tuck in a starched shirt and tie that silly strip of cloth around my neck. And I actually leave the apartment wearing this get-up.<\/p>\n<p>Suits are for special occasions and death (someone else&#8217;s, not one&#8217;s own \u2014 don&#8217;t put one on me when I go), not for everyday wear. And when I realize how normal it&#8217;s become for me to don this garb every morning, I&#8217;m slightly horrified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those days when I unhappily realize I&#8217;ve been working for the past five months at a job where I have to wear a suit and tie. Five days a week I tuck in a starched shirt and tie that silly strip of cloth around my neck. And I actually leave the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/30\/the-noose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Noose<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entries-with-images","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}