{"id":1101,"date":"2008-04-18T08:17:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/boxers-or-briefs\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:17:21","slug":"boxers-or-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/boxers-or-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxers or Briefs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the eternal question (well at least for men).\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed there are even several kinds of boxers, so this field is rife with controversy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2143313\/nav\/tap1\/\">personal preference<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I give you the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxer_shorts\">boxer (or boxer shorts)<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxer_briefs\">boxer brief<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Briefs\">brief<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They all have their pluses and minuses to be sure.\u00c2\u00a0 What is the one true kind of underwear?\u00c2\u00a0 I cannot say, but I can only add this: Before I really adopted the boxer brief, I was painfully single.\u00c2\u00a0 With the boxer brief in my life, I was soon happily married.\u00c2\u00a0 You do the math.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the topic of the post.\u00c2\u00a0 Like all men, Cael had to find his own way in the underwear department.\u00c2\u00a0 For some reason he ended up with several pairs of briefs in the last while.\u00c2\u00a0 He had more pairs of boxer briefs (tastefully adorned with Spider Man and Batman of course) than anything, but I guess sometimes he wore the briefs.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, he finally arrived at his own conclusion the other day.\u00c2\u00a0 He was visibly uncomfortable at the table, shifting and wincing.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally he said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tight underwear hurts my knuckles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed they do, son.\u00c2\u00a0 And so he took another small step into manhood with the decision to wear underwear that does not hurt his, ahem, knuckles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the eternal question (well at least for men).\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed there are even several kinds of boxers, so this field is rife with controversy and personal preference.\u00c2\u00a0 I give you the boxer (or boxer shorts), the boxer brief, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/boxers-or-briefs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-hL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}