{"id":1044,"date":"2011-06-14T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:23","slug":"wigs-and-neckties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/06\/wigs-and-neckties\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigs and Neckties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107207\/\">a movie<\/a> about the Irish Republican Army and the British legal system.\u00a0 As you know, the judges, barristers and solicitors in British courts wear powdered wigs.\u00a0 My wife says, &#8220;Culture is so strange.\u00a0 Would you ever wear a wig?\u00a0 How would you pick the wig you want to wear?&#8221;\u00a0 I look up at the screen, see the accused sitting in court, and reply, &#8220;What is the difference between a wig and a necktie?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frank Zappa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Burnt-Weeny-Sandwich-Mothers-Invention\/dp\/B0000009S5\">once said<\/a> to a concert audience, &#8220;Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform, don&#8217;t kid yourselves.&#8221;\u00a0 And so we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are watching a movie about the Irish Republican Army and the British legal system.\u00a0 As you know, the judges, barristers and solicitors in British courts wear powdered wigs.\u00a0 My wife says, &#8220;Culture is so strange.\u00a0 Would you ever wear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/06\/wigs-and-neckties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}