{"id":27904,"date":"2014-11-24T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27904"},"modified":"2014-11-24T03:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:50:59","slug":"happy-shadyxv-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/happy-shadyxv-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy #ShadyXV Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the good things about being a jewelry designer is that I always have the appropriate accessories for any occasion, such as today&#8217;s official release of <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/shadyxv\/id935860107\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shady XV<\/em><\/a>, the double album celebrating 15 years of Eminem&#8217;s Shady Records label.\u00a0 Let me take a selfie &#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27905\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27905\" class=\"wp-image-27905 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shadyxvresize.jpg\" alt=\"shadyxvresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shadyxvresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shadyxvresize-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry, Stans! These necklaces aren&#8217;t for sale.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That photo was inspired by my gorgeous rapper friend <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/gangsta-boo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gangsta Boo<\/a>, seen here wearing the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-sulky-necklace-in-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">nameplate necklace<\/a> I made her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27912\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27912\" class=\"wp-image-27912 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gangstaboochainresize.jpg\" alt=\"gangstaboochainresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gangstaboochainresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gangstaboochainresize-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of my favorite pictures of any of my designs!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Boo said to <a href=\"http:\/\/i-d.vice.com\/en_gb\/article\/twenty-years-in-the-rap-game-with-three-6-mafias-gangsta-boo\" target=\"_blank\">i-D magazine this summer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had to go through certain things where I&#8217;ve had to push a titty up or two to get things done, whereas a man doesn&#8217;t. He can just scratch his balls and shake hands with a CEO to get his deal signed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In those two sentences, Boo summed up my<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/never-is-the-next-new-thing-my-bio-and-columbia-spectator\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 16 years of work experience in the corporate world<\/a>, except I had to do a lot more nodding and smiling than boob flashing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my track record of hiring, training and promoting women during those shitty corporate years, I&#8217;m probably a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bad-Feminist-Essays-Roxane-Gay\/dp\/0062282719\" target=\"_blank\">bad feminist<\/a>, according to some standards. After all, I&#8217;m buying Eminem&#8217;s latest album mere months after irritating the great <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/from-gloria-steinem-to-miley-cyrus-in-one-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Steinem<\/a>! But, fuck it, I&#8217;ve got to be un-PC me.\u00a0 My attitude is spelled out on the t-shirt I got at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Portrait Gallery<\/a> in London a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27908\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tshirt.jpg\" alt=\"tshirt\" width=\"498\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tshirt.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tshirt-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth I and <em>Shady XV<\/em>. I like &#8217;em both. (But I&#8217;d like that souvenir t-shirt better if it had a plunging neckline!) <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the good things about being a jewelry designer is that I always have the appropriate accessories for any occasion, such as today&#8217;s official release of Shady XV, the double album celebrating 15 years of Eminem&#8217;s Shady Records label.\u00a0 Let me take a selfie &#8230;. That photo was inspired by my gorgeous rapper friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/happy-shadyxv-day\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27905,"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":[561,46,584,42,43,13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eminem","category-feminism","category-gangsta-boo","category-music","category-my-designs","category-necklaces","category-pictures-of-me","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27904","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=27904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27915,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27904\/revisions\/27915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}