{"id":32124,"date":"2025-12-18T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=32124"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:57:05","slug":"the-bow-tie-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/the-bow-tie-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bow Tie Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1362\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121825.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121825-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121825-488x281.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121825-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1362px) 100vw, 1362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">t back to my office and ordered a dozen clip-on bow ties. If a tie was required at all times, it would be one I could put on in seconds and forget about. I never wore a long tie again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">Only later did I notice the line running backward. My grandfather, in his customary bow tie, formal without being fussy. Authority expressed compactly. And decades on, my brother Mike and I<\/span><span class=\"cf1\">\u2014older now\u2014standing together with my Australian clip-on, the rule having quietly become a signature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf1\">Some standards are imposed. The good ones, you adapt into comfort. And if you\u2019re lucky, they turn out not to be new at all\u2014just something you were already wearing, once removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf1\">Copyright 2025 Vic Socotra<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\">\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf1\">www.vicsocotra.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t back to my office and ordered a dozen clip-on bow ties. If a tie was required at all times, it would be one I could put on in seconds and forget about. I never wore a long tie again. Only later did I notice the line running backward. My grandfather, in his customary bow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32126,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32124\/revisions\/32126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}