{"id":585,"date":"2006-08-05T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-08-05T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T16:07:00","slug":"an-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/1600\/tie.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/200\/tie.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Dear Mark, Johnny, and Greg &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I write to you to apologize.  As you may remember, at Goose&#8217;s wedding we sat together.  I had tied my tie with a windsor knot, and each of you had tied his with a half-windsor.  When someone commented on my more formal, dare I say <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">stately<\/span>, knot, I took the opportunity to mock you, saying that I was the only person at the table who did not look as if he was going to his first communion.  This was, perhaps, a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>Please accept my apology.  Also, the fine folks at Brooks Brothers have put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooksbrothers.com\/TieKnots\/tieknots.tem\">site <\/a>to help us learn even more knots.  I couldn&#8217;t help but think of you.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mark, Johnny, and Greg &#8211; I write to you to apologize. As you may remember, at Goose&#8217;s wedding we sat together. I had tied my tie with a windsor knot, and each of you had tied his with a half-windsor. When someone commented on my more formal, dare I say stately, knot, I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}