{"id":317,"date":"2013-12-09T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T21:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T21:50:23","slug":"52-photos-polka-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/52-photos-polka-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Photos: Polka Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s prompt was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.52photosproject.com\/2013\/12\/gallery-33-polka-dots.html\">polka dots<\/a>. I roamed far and wide, spied with my little eye and finally came home, to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jillbertini\/11296983814\/\" title=\"spatula by jillbertini, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7304\/11296983814_a64f61017b.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"spatula\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which, I might add, in addition to be fantastically polka dotted, is a great spatula. Since I&#8217;m not feeling full of verve, let me direct you to this lovely piece: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2013\/06\/a-brief-history-of-polka-dots-2\">A Brief History of Polka Dots<\/a>. Especially this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPolka dots need not be emasculating,\u201d said Anna Akbari, wardrobe consultant and founder of the styling business Closet Catharsis. Akbari, who teaches a course entitled \u201cFashion and Power\u201d at NYU, added that men wearing polka dots \u201cdemonstrates that they pay attention to fashion, that they\u2019re fashion-focused.\u201d Other renowned male advocates of the polka dot include Marc Jacobs, with his \u201cDotty\u201d collection and Dot perfume (jasmine, orange blossom and honeysuckle), and the artist Damien Hirst, notorious for his sterile, vertigo-inducing dot paintings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p \n\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"52%20Photos%3A%20Polka%20Dots\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s prompt was polka dots. I roamed far and wide, spied with my little eye and finally came home, to this: Which, I might add, in addition to be fantastically polka dotted, is a great spatula. Since I&#8217;m not feeling full of verve, let me direct you to this lovely piece: A Brief History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"52%20Photos%3A%20Polka%20Dots\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-52photosproject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}