{"id":22763,"date":"2013-10-10T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22763"},"modified":"2013-10-10T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:47:09","slug":"limerick-ode-to-the-tux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/10\/10\/limerick-ode-to-the-tux\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Tux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the tuxedo (tux) has several versions, all of which involve <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuxedo\">New York&#8217;s Tuxedo Park Club.<\/a>  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.440.com\/twtd\/archives\/oct10.html\">one version<\/a>, on October 10, 1886:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Griswold Lorillard (of Lorillard tobacco fame) wore a tailless dress coat that was tailored in England. He wore it to the country club at Tuxedo Park, New York; therefore, the name: tuxedo. The rest is formal fashion history. The tux would later replace the tailcoat.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Tux<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you go to a party deluxe<br \/>\nAnd are forced to squeeze into a tux,<br \/>\nSome say Lorillard&#8217;s the guy<br \/>\nYou can thank when you buy<br \/>\nOr must rent one for too many bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the tuxedo (tux) has several versions, all of which involve New York&#8217;s Tuxedo Park Club. According to one version, on October 10, 1886: Griswold Lorillard (of Lorillard tobacco fame) wore a tailless dress coat that was tailored in England. He wore it to the country club at Tuxedo Park, New York; therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,42,1524],"tags":[4931,3874,3869,3873,258,2094,3871,3870,3872],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion-humor","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","tag-fashion-humor","tag-formal-attire","tag-griswold-lorillard","tag-mens-clothing","tag-new-york","tag-october-holidays","tag-tux-limerick","tag-tuxedo-humor","tag-tuxedo-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22771,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions\/22771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}