{"id":2497,"date":"2010-07-19T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2010-07-19T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:37:00","slug":"side-talks-with-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"Side-Talks With Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new feature, which will run daily until I run out of responses or until I get tired of doing it, whichever comes first.  Fresh from the July 1897 Ladies&#8217; Home Journal, I bring you&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/vintage\/1897advice\/1897side-talkswithgirls.jpg\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Side-talks with girls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/vintage\/1897advice\/1897side-talkswithgirls.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Young ladies write in with questions, and Ruth writes back discreet responses on proper etiquette and fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a response to &#8220;Mattie.&#8221;  I can only assume that Mattie wrote about some really sweet piece of wedding bling.  Ruth has a definite opinion.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/vintage\/1897advice\/1897advice1-Mattie.jpg\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Put a ring on it.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/vintage\/1897advice\/1897advice1-Mattie.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"75\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.  Just like that, Ruth <strike>dashes Mattie&#8217;s hopes<\/strike> sets Mattie straight.  If you like it then you should put a ring on it, but not too big a ring, because that would be gauche.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonycreed.com\/HUGE_Gold_Skull_Ring..JPG\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonycreed.com\/HUGE_Gold_Skull_Ring..JPG\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new feature, which will run daily until I run out of responses or until I get tired of doing it, whichever comes first. Fresh from the July 1897 Ladies&#8217; Home Journal, I bring you&#8230; Young ladies write in with questions, and Ruth writes back discreet responses on proper etiquette and fashion. Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}