Thanks to all of you for your kind emails, comments, and Twitter tweets about my mother\u2019s death. I really appreciate it!<\/p>\n
In my mother\u2019s honor, I\u2019m posting a 1996 humor column she inspired during happier (and funnier) times:<\/p>\n
Secret Shopper
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going in there. No way. Forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n
My seventy-something mother\u2019s stance was as rigid as her words; arms folded across her chest, unyielding legs pointed away from the shop I\u2019d just suggested.<\/p>\n
She and I had spent the entire afternoon combing through three department stores for the definitive pair of panties. Or at least my mom\u2019s idea of same. This illusive undergarment had to be loose, comfortable, 100% cotton, and totally devoid of lace. And that was just for starters. It also had to completely cover my mother\u2019s hips and come in a large size, the exact number of which she resolutely refused to disclose. \u2026 (Secret Shopper is continued here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to all of you for your kind emails, comments, and Twitter tweets about my mother\u2019s death. I really appreciate it! In my mother\u2019s honor, I\u2019m posting a 1996 humor column she inspired during happier (and funnier) times: Secret Shopper By Madeleine Begun Kane \u201cI\u2019m not going in there. No way. Forget it.\u201d My seventy-something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,78,18,155,16,45],"tags":[161,162,163,164,147,160,165,166,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}