{"id":1449,"date":"2015-01-30T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T00:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2024-07-07T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T14:13:05","slug":"american-sportive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/american-sportive\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt: American Sportive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI beg your pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Gatsby\u2019s butler was suddenly standing beside us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMiss Baker?\u201d he inquired. \u201cI beg your pardon, but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith me?\u201d she exclaimed in surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cYes, madame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She got up slowly, raising her eyebrows at me in astonishment, and followed the butler toward the house. I noticed that she wore her evening-dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes\u2013there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0\u2014 <\/em><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> (1925) by F.Scott.Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliography:<\/strong><br \/>\nFitzgerald, F.Scott.\u00a0The Great Gatsby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Credit:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIllustration of one-piece golf dress\u00a0from Bonwit Teller catalogue, 1925, from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fuzzylizzie.com\/golfclothing.html\">fuzzylizzie.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI beg your pardon.\u201d \u00a0Gatsby\u2019s butler was suddenly standing beside us. \u201cMiss Baker?\u201d he inquired. \u201cI beg your pardon, but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,27,29,31,41,44],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excerpt","tag-fashion","tag-gender-relations","tag-identity","tag-literature","tag-style","tag-womens-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/10\/5f29df231d81b910a0af068d6e60626e.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TvUL-nn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}