{"id":8442,"date":"2013-10-08T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/why-saggy-pants\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T11:00:20","slug":"why-saggy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/why-saggy-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Saggy Pants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Peter proffered a theory over Sunday breakfast a while back.&#0160; &#39;Gangsta&#39; rappers and their imitators are aping the sartorial disarray of prison inductees.&#0160; When you arrive at the slammer, the Man takes&#0160;away your belt, so your pants fall down.&#0160; So &#39;gangsta&#39; rappers and their imitators are preparing&#0160; themselves for prison life or else showing their solidarity with their incarcerated brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Thinking that this might just be an urban legend, I headed over&#0160;to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/risque\/homosex\/sagging.asp\" target=\"_self\">Snopes<\/a>, where I find Peter&#39;s theory confirmed.&#0160; The droopy drawers dudes in prisons are not advertising their availability for sodomy, as some have surmised, but expose their butts because of over-sized beltless prison garb , the belts having been taken away to keep the miscreants from hanging themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The question remains, however, why the rappers and their acolytes would choose criminals as their role models.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In all my years of blogging, this is only my third sartorial post.&#0160; The other two are lodged, appropriately enough, in the category, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/sartorial-matters\/\" target=\"_self\">Sartorial Matters<\/a>.&#0160; One mentions Montaigne, the other Adorno. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter proffered a theory over Sunday breakfast a while back.&#0160; &#39;Gangsta&#39; rappers and their imitators are aping the sartorial disarray of prison inductees.&#0160; When you arrive at the slammer, the Man takes&#0160;away your belt, so your pants fall down.&#0160; So &#39;gangsta&#39; rappers and their imitators are preparing&#0160; themselves for prison life or else showing their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/why-saggy-pants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Saggy Pants?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartorial-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}