{"id":6176,"date":"2010-10-27T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2010-10-27T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:01:29","slug":"vintage-douche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/vintage-douche\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Douche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gerard-maione.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6177\" title=\"gerard maione\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gerard-maione.jpg?resize=332%2C476\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gerard-maione.jpg?w=332&amp;ssl=1 332w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gerard-maione.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately, I keep reading about &#8220;<strong>What Goes Around Comes Around<\/strong>,&#8221; a vintage clothing shop in New York where hipsters get their old jeans and military jackets.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I heard about this place was a piece in Time Out about style mavens. The co-owner and &#8220;style director&#8221; of WGACA is a guy named <strong>Gerard Maione<\/strong> who exemplifies everything I hate in a man.&nbsp;\u00a0 You know, arrogant, vain, self-congratulatory, fame whore, perpetual five o&#8217;clock shadow a la Richard Nixon (or that guy in Entourage) and a preening fashion style.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about his screams douche.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m mad, let me also say how much I hate stores like this one. They&#8217;re selling an old Stones t-shirt for $795, which is just stupid. The real problem is that they ruin things for regular people who used to find treasures in thrift shops. Thrift shops are plundered by &#8220;pickers&#8221; who sell the good shit to vintage stores, and voila, there&#8217;s nothing left but Forever 21 and Old Navy crap. Fuckers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still mad!<\/p>\n<p>How about this: a fatwa on &#8220;thrifting&#8221; as a verb. or &#8220;thrifted&#8221; as an adjective?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I keep reading about &#8220;What Goes Around Comes Around,&#8221; a vintage clothing shop in New York where hipsters get their old jeans and military jackets. The first time I heard about this place was a piece in Time Out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/vintage-douche\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[627,488,195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1BC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}