{"id":1575,"date":"2004-10-31T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T17:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/10\/31\/gross-burberry\/"},"modified":"2004-10-31T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T17:53:35","slug":"gross-burberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/10\/31\/gross-burberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Burberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a647'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>{pictureRef (<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/natep\/31TOLL.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"184\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">, align:&#8221;left&#8221;)}I often peruse the couple<br \/>\nannouncements in the Times, just to see what&#8217;s going on among the<br \/>\nNortheastern elite class.&nbsp; Usually, they are pretty<br \/>\nstandard.&nbsp; At least one person has a parent in the<br \/>\nBoston-Washington corridor, or the couple are from New York.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSomeone has an Ivy League or Ivy-equivalent degree or two.&nbsp; And<br \/>\noccasionally there&#8217;s a photo.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/31\/fashion\/weddings\/31TOLL.html?pagewanted=all\">this one<\/a> made me retch.&nbsp; Same for BF.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not the text so much as the photo.&nbsp; The obvious shmoopiness <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">combined with the Burberry scarf wrapped around both of them<\/span>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nPower elite, party of two.&nbsp; It&#8217;s all too reminiscent of the &#8220;Sex<br \/>\nin the City&#8221; episode where Charlotte spends a maddening amount of time<br \/>\nand effort to compose a picture of her fiance and her; she has studied<br \/>\nthe wedding page in great detail to find out what the NYT is looking<br \/>\nfor so she can guarantee that her picture goes in.&nbsp; This one is so<br \/>\nobviously such an attempt, it&#8217;s hard to take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Sends shivers up and down my spine.<\/p>\n<p>Let it never be said that recent gay weddings have exhibited the height of bad taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{pictureRef (, align:&#8221;left&#8221;)}I often peruse the couple announcements in the Times, just to see what&#8217;s going on among the Northeastern elite class.&nbsp; Usually, they are pretty standard.&nbsp; At least one person has a parent in the Boston-Washington corridor, or the couple are from New York.&nbsp; Someone has an Ivy League or Ivy-equivalent degree or two.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontheweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}