{"id":1495,"date":"2009-07-22T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2009-07-22T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:35:14","slug":"the_new_black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"The New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted an observation on Facebook early in the spring and asked whether &#8220;Pink&#8221; had become the new &#8220;Black&#8221; for guys in New York City.  I didn&#8217;t really get much of a response.<br \/>\nWell, last week my question was answered.  One day last week, from the subway to my office (a block and a half), going out to eat lunch in the area (around 75 minutes), and walking back to the subway after work I counted 12 guys in pink shirts &#8211; t-shires, Polo&#8217;s, Oxfords, and dress-shirts &#8211; 4 guys in pink ties, and one guy with muted pink lipstick (it is New York, after all).<br \/>\nSo, I will declare that &#8220;Pink&#8221; has become the new &#8220;Black&#8221; (as much as that really means anything at all) for guys in New York.  After all, &#8220;real men wear pink.&#8221;  That, of course, was conjured up by some die manufacturer that had an overabundance of red die, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted an observation on Facebook early in the spring and asked whether &#8220;Pink&#8221; had become the new &#8220;Black&#8221; for guys in New York City. I didn&#8217;t really get much of a response. Well, last week my question was answered. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}