{"id":13143,"date":"2011-11-07T02:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2011-11-07T02:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:57:48","slug":"what-wendy-wore-golden-girls-gang-does-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-wendy-wore-golden-girls-gang-does-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Golden Girls Gang Does Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/well-start-our-own-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since 2008<\/a> &#8212; and inspired by a gold sequin Antik Batik dress &#8212; I&#8217;ve wanted to organize a terrifying gang called <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/golden-girls-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Golden Girls<\/a>. Membership would require the wearing of gold sequins, the ability to strike <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/the-wendyb-pose\/\" target=\"_blank\">the WendyB pose<\/a> and maybe a violent initiation ceremony just to keep things lively.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13144\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/well-start-our-own-gang\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13144\" title=\"antik\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/antik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/antik.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/antik-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dress in 2008. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13145\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/shiny-happy-birthday\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13145\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13145 \" title=\"shinyhappy\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shinyhappy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shinyhappy.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shinyhappy-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dress in 2009. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I unexpectedly achieved my gangsta goal this weekend in Las Vegas, where my gorgeous friend <a href=\"http:\/\/tinatheoccasionalcook.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tina the Occasional Cook<\/a> was continuing her birthday celebration<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/what-wendy-wore-stacy-lomman-dress-for-tinas-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\"> from the previous weekend<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t know she would bring the gold sequin Vicky Tiel dress she wore at her gold-themed birthday party. But I&#8217;m glad she did because I haven&#8217;t taken a good &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/twins\/\" target=\"_blank\">twins<\/a>&#8221; photo in a year!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13146\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13146\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13146  \" title=\"tinawendy\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tinawendy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tinawendy.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tinawendy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note our excellent leg crossing skills!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We got the sequins and the posing down, but we failed to commit any acts of violence. Or did we? What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008 &#8212; and inspired by a gold sequin Antik Batik dress &#8212; I&#8217;ve wanted to organize a terrifying gang called the Golden Girls. Membership would require the wearing of gold sequins, the ability to strike the WendyB pose and maybe a violent initiation ceremony just to keep things lively. I unexpectedly achieved my gangsta&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-wendy-wore-golden-girls-gang-does-vegas\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,128,83,277,41,9,99,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birthdays","8":"category-golden-girls-gang","9":"category-gorgeous-friends","10":"category-outfit-post","11":"category-pictures-of-me","12":"category-travel","13":"category-twins","14":"category-what-wendy-wore","15":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13150,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions\/13150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}