{"id":2555,"date":"2009-05-23T01:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T05:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:41:17","slug":"sic-transit-gloria-mundi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sic Transit Gloria Mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite possessions is my Tilley<\/a>. Yes, I know that most people who wear them are at least a generation older than I am. Yes, I know they’re hardly fashionable. I could care less–I am quite fond of my khaki\/olive T5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing: it fits<\/a>–no small thing for a man who was laughed out of a hat factory<\/a> for having a head too big to be accommodated–and it keeps the ever-so-fair skin on my bald head from getting horribly, horribly burned<\/a> by that flaming ball of gas.<\/p>\n

I have also always been somewhat amused by the whole Tilley idea<\/a>: the eternal guarantee<\/a>, the “an elephant can eat it and you can get it back unharmed” shtick<\/a>, the brag tags, etc.<\/p>\n

I got my Tilley roughly a decade ago, and it’s stood me in good stead on three or four continents–depending on how you count Israel–over the intervening years. I haven’t got a burn on my noggin that entire time, although I’ve had some lovely ones on other exposed areas.<\/p>\n

And today, on the first real day of my vacation, about half-way through the day, I noticed that there was some fraying of the fabric near the front of the hat. I touched it, gently, and my finger went right through the sweat-soaked fabric like it was a wet tissue, rather than indestructible hardy cotton weave.<\/p>\n

Witness:<\/p>\n

\"Woe<\/a><\/p>\n

Or a closer look:<\/p>\n

\"That's<\/a><\/p>\n

My wife posits this as the final victory for my “highly acidic” sweat over fine haberdashery.<\/p>\n

This is somewhat inconvenient, since I have eight more days on vacation in a sunny, sunny place, and am very far from Tilley’s homebase. I guess I’ll make due with the rip for the rest of the trip, and then we’ll see how that guarantee<\/a> actually works out.<\/p>\n

I wonder if I could get them to replace my now defunct T5<\/a> with one of the the newer, more ventilated, models<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite possessions is my Tilley. Yes, I know that most people who wear them are at least a generation older than I am. Yes, I know they’re hardly fashionable. I could care less–I am quite fond of my khaki\/olive T5. Here’s the thing: it fits–no small thing for a man who was laughed out of a hat… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[284,104,99],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-recommended","tag-the-road","tag-things-to-buy","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Fd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}