{"id":190,"date":"1962-08-06T22:02:39","date_gmt":"1962-08-07T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:43:46","slug":"tale-of-two-tonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/1962\/08\/06\/tale-of-two-tonis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of Two Toni&#8217;s &#8211; 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style7\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 15px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/oldsite\/images\/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"Toni perm\" width=\"435\" height=\"399\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style6\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">I was walking past a beauty parlor the other day, a wave of nostalgia overcame me like Proust\u2019s smelling his little cookies. It was the acrid smell of someone getting their hair permed that brought me back to 1950.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style6\">There was a Saturday ritual of my mother sitting in a kitchen chair applying the contents of TONI on her hair, a home permanent wave brand concoction. That pungent vinegary smell transports me back to that afternoon with my mother, applying that horrid stuff and asking, \u201cAm I done yet?\u201d\u00a0 Then she would don this huge plastic bonnet of her Sunbeam Hairdryer and bake!<\/p>\n<p class=\"style6\">Because of \u201cToni\u201d, I always resented when someone spelled my name with an \u201ci\u201d. It\u2019s TONY! Of course in Italy Toni is the way you spell Tony but I was too macho to accept it. Plus growing up I was Anthony anyway and my dad was Tony.\u00a0 And the boys name Francis is spelled with an &#8220;i&#8221; so go figure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking past a beauty parlor the other day, a wave of nostalgia overcame me like Proust\u2019s smelling his little cookies. It was the acrid smell of someone getting their hair permed that brought me back to 1950. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/1962\/08\/06\/tale-of-two-tonis\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonynapoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}