{"id":8,"date":"2002-08-11T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-11T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"white-socks-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/white-socks-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"White Socks Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickon wears white socks.<\/p>\n<p>I often get into terrible trouble for this. My own reason is that, at school, the &apos;White Sock Brigade&apos; was the term for the English equivalent of rednecks. &apos;Townies&apos; is another. So one reason for me wearing them is simple reclamation of territory. Even townies don&apos;t wear white socks anymore. They&apos;re that rough.  Another reason is that I rather like them. Their current status as fashion anathema gives them, in my eyes, a sly degree of forbidden fruit fetishism. <\/p>\n<p>Or so I thought. In Q Magazine this month, the boy in The White Stripes, possibly the most fashionable band of the moment, can be seen displaying a palpably white-clothed gap between his black shoes and red trousers.<\/p>\n<p>Does this means white socks are finally back in? And, like a stopped clock, I am fashionable simply by brazening it out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickon wears white socks. I often get into terrible trouble for this. My own reason is that, at school, the &apos;White Sock Brigade&apos; was the term for the English equivalent of rednecks. &apos;Townies&apos; is another. So one reason for me wearing them is simple reclamation of territory. Even townies don&apos;t wear white socks anymore. They&apos;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}