{"id":209,"date":"2007-04-30T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-04-30T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T12:00:13","slug":"theproperwaytowearpicturerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/theproperwaytowearpicturerings\/","title":{"rendered":"The proper way to wear picture-rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered about the right way to wear rings that depict faces?  I&#8217;ve been wearing an old family ring my Dad gave me for years and people constantly asked me why I wore my ring upside-down.  After arguing with everyone about it, I finally broke down and asked the experts at the &#8220;Emily Post Institute&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilypost.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.emilypost.com\/.<\/a>  Here is my e-mail, and their response:<br \/>\n??&#8230;I have an old family ring that I&#8217;ve been wearing for years that depicts the face and head (in profile) of a Roman Centurion.  Should the Centurion&#8217;s helmet (the top of the picture) be closer to the base of my finger, or the fingertip?&#8230;??<br \/>\n??&#8230;Usually, a pictorial ring is worn with the base facing the wearer, not the &#8220;observer.&#8221; Therefore, the centurion&#8217;s helmet is closest to the fingertip&#8230;??<br \/>\nI guess this is what they mean:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/CenturionRing.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFor more information about men&#8217;s fashion and style, my favorite writer is GQ&#8217;s &#8220;Style Guy&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/men.style.com\/gq\/fashion\/styleguy.\">http:\/\/men.style.com\/gq\/fashion\/styleguy.<\/a>  He may be an elitist, but he does have a caustic style that&#8217;s fun to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered about the right way to wear rings that depict faces? I&#8217;ve been wearing an old family ring my Dad gave me for years and people constantly asked me why I wore my ring upside-down. After arguing with everyone about it, I finally broke down and asked the experts at the &#8220;Emily Post Institute&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilypost.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.emilypost.com\/.<\/a> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[142,383],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-fashion","tag-us-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}