{"id":885,"date":"2014-02-14T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=885"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:13","slug":"vests-knives-and-pocket-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2014\/02\/14\/vests-knives-and-pocket-watches\/","title":{"rendered":"Vests, Knives, and Pocket Watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/files\/2014\/02\/Audie4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-886\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/files\/2014\/02\/Audie4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Whenever I think of the 1940s, or early 20th century, what comes to mind are a men&#8217;s vest, a pocket watch, and a wood handle pocket knife. The pocket watch may not have been as common due to cost, but the three kind of symbolize the statutes of a gentleman to me. Things like &#8220;dressing to impress,&#8221; everyday usage for a knife, and the watch just to show a difference in technology. They remind me of a time when Boy Scouts was popular and revered, women always wore dresses, men tipped their hats, and kids actually played in groups&#8230; outside.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what happened to things like this at times. People don&#8217;t read books anymore, it is frowned upon to learn dead languages instead of Spanish, people dress like Justin Bieber, and TV seems to have a <em>Real Housewives<\/em> of every major city. We need to face the facts, we are a much more materialistic society today, and quite frankly we have forgotten or abandoned many of the simplistic ways of living.<\/p>\n<p>It is a shame in my opinion. Change isn&#8217;t always good, sometimes the clock needs to be reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I think of the 1940s, or early 20th century, what comes to mind are a men&#8217;s vest, a pocket watch, and a wood handle pocket knife. The pocket watch may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audie-kaufman-17"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}