{"id":3424,"date":"2010-01-23T23:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T07:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2023-02-20T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:30:07","slug":"get-on-our-bib-and-tucker-its-off-to-the-purple-bubble-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Get On Our Bib And Tucker; It&#8217;s Off To The Elks Purple Bubble Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huh??? One&#8217;s finest clothes, dressed up, as in <strong>The men were told to put on their best bib and tucker for the dinner dance<\/strong>. Although wearing either a bib (frill at front of a man&#8217;s shirt) or a tucker (ornamental lace covering a woman&#8217;s neck and shoulders) is obsolete, the phrase survives. [Mid-1700s].\u00a0 On our PURPLE PIGS there is a saying: &#8220;A COIN A DAY AND THEY&#8217;LL WALK, TALK, SEE AND PLAY,&#8221; which is really a polite way of saying&#8230; we should do a little more. Just a lot of people doing just a little more to help the handicapped children that is the real reason for our existence. What we need is a lot of people working together for the same cause. That&#8217;s the Elks.\u00a0 <strong>Please join us for the evening!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3431\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3431\" title=\"purple_bubble_ball_015\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/purple_bubble_ball_015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/purple_bubble_ball_015.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/purple_bubble_ball_015-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/purple_bubble_ball_015-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We danced from 7:30 to 11:30 and only missed the Tango!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh??? One&#8217;s finest clothes, dressed up, as in The men were told to put on their best bib and tucker for the dinner dance. Although wearing either a bib (frill at front of a man&#8217;s shirt) or a tucker (ornamental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,17],"tags":[140,26],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-food-and-wine","category-friends","tag-dancing","tag-elks-lodge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67418,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/67418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}