{"id":514,"date":"2012-06-15T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:56:24","slug":"matty-poo-and-yes-this-is-relevant-wait-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Matty-Poo (and yes this is relevant &#8212; wait for it &#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, we were sitting around at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikenmollys.com\/\" title=\"MnM's\">&#8220;the other bar&#8221;<\/a>, when Hoss&#8217; sharp eye caught a glimpse of bright yellow yonder in one corner. After close inspection, it was discovered that this was Boilermaker&#8217;s jacket that he had apparently left behind after a long night of <del datetime=\"2012-06-15T16:19:45+00:00\">drinking his brains out<\/del> carousing amicably with his fellow cohorts. The hilarious thing about this jacket is that at first glance, it looks like some twenty year-old hand-me-down that mom made you wear to school and all your friends made fun of you. What&#8217;s even more bizarre, is that, and I shit you not, it&#8217;s &#8220;Ralph Lauren.&#8221; Duane (aka Purple Aces, who by the way is about 132 years old and could still bench press your ass) made the astute observation that when he once spotted Matt wearing it downtown one day, that our beloved Boilermaker looked like a mini-schoolbus walking down the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>And with no further ado, I present to you, <strong>Matt&#8217;s Jacket: A Study in Sartorial Excellence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Hoss, our intrepid spelunker who discovered the beast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt8-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Look what I found!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt8-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt8-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Bermuda, taking the scholarly approach &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Now pay attention ...\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-516\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hideout, who looks like he&#8217;s about to turn into a yellow bat and flitter away &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Care to join me for a sherry?\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt3-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt3-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank, who looks like he&#8217;s just about to bust open &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Unnnnnngh!!!!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt4-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt4-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt4.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brick, who for some inexplicable reason decided that the jacket wasn&#8217;t complete without a large jar on his head &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt6-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Is that Bruce Vilanch?\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt6-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt6-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt6.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, yours truly, <strong>WEARING A HAMM&#8217;S HAT!<\/strong> I told you it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt2-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt2-hat-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Schoolbus, indeed.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt2-hat-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt2-hat-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/matt2-hat.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether Boilermaker knows this has all gone down &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE: Boilermaker apparently now knows this has all gone down.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, we were sitting around at &#8220;the other bar&#8221;, when Hoss&#8217; sharp eye caught a glimpse of bright yellow yonder in one corner. After close inspection, it was discovered that this was Boilermaker&#8217;s jacket that he had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/?p=514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12,6,15,13,5,14,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamms-hat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}