{"id":5373,"date":"2004-03-29T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/29\/tieing-one-on-part-ii.html"},"modified":"2004-03-29T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T20:24:07","slug":"tieing_one_on_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/29\/tieing_one_on_p.html","title":{"rendered":"Tieing one on, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are but a smattering of stores over at the Colorado Mills <\/a>that carry ties. Three observations:<\/p>\n

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  1. There are a lot <\/i>of ugly ties out there. The vast majority, in fact.\n
  2. There are a lot of expensive ties out there. This does not necessarily correlate with the previous point.\n
  3. There are a lot of ties out there that strike me as overly wide. While a tie being wide does not necessarily make it ugly, it doesn’t help, and a wide ugly tie is less forgivable than a narrow one.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are but a smattering of stores over at the Colorado Mills that carry ties. Three observations: There are a lot of ugly ties out there. 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