{"id":292,"date":"2005-07-08T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2005-07-08T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T05:25:00","slug":"ladies-and-gentlementhe-gypsy-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN\u2026THE GYPSY KINGS!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Purely for comic relief (and also because today is Friday), I\u2019ve decided to introduce this photo into the public domain.<\/p>\n

That jive-turkey mafioso<\/em> on the left is\u2014or shall I say, was\u2014me in 1986.<\/p>\n

It was taken during my sophomore year at Northern Illinois University (GO HUSKIES!) during a Friday night off-campus party. I\u2019ll keep the names of my two companions under wraps, so that they don\u2019t sue me for intentional infliction of public humiliation. But THEY know who they are.<\/p>\n

I believe this photo is notable as much for the vast quantity of hair on my head, as for the embarrassing lack thereof on my chest. My-oh-my, how the tables have turned twenty years later.<\/p>\n

BTW\u2026the curls weren\u2019t natural. But you\u2019ve probably already figured that out.<\/p>\n

Comedy aside, there is an eerie element of foreshadowing in this photo. Isn\u2019t it inevitable that a guy who looked like a flamenco singer in 1986 should be living in Spain in 2005?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purely for comic relief (and also because today is Friday), I\u2019ve decided to introduce this photo into the public domain. That jive-turkey mafioso on the left is\u2014or shall I say, was\u2014me in 1986. It was taken during my sophomore year at Northern Illinois University (GO HUSKIES!) during a Friday night off-campus party. I\u2019ll keep the … Continue reading LADIES AND GENTLEMEN\u2026THE GYPSY KINGS!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75qi3-4I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":261,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=261","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":0},"title":"AND NOW FOR A MOMENT OF\u2026NONNIE!","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"October 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I was leafing through my electronic photo archive tonight and stumbled upon this photo. 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