{"id":415,"date":"2004-02-08T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-07-11T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:40:59","slug":"quote-of-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"The Turkish Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night &#8211; a wine and cheese fondue fest at Artisanal with 4 good friends.  Decadence unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>A day at the Turkish baths.   Filled with macho half-naked Russians.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men was built like a real-life Ken Doll, the epitome of perfection &#8211; sculpted breast plate, sculpted thighs, bright blonde hair, very handsome face.  There is a machismo in spa-going for these people &#8211; how hot can you take the steam room?  How long can you take it?  It&#8217;s none of this pansy-assed day-spa nonsense, where you are pampered and coddled.  The Turkish baths are hard-core.<\/p>\n<p>Later, discussing the Ken Doll, my friend Felicia said (and this is a word-for-word quote):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looked like an Aryan youth.&#8221;  Pause.  &#8220;Only he was Russian and he was an adult.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night &#8211; a wine and cheese fondue fest at Artisanal with 4 good friends. Decadence unleashed. A day at the Turkish baths. Filled with macho half-naked Russians. One of the men was built like a real-life Ken Doll, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}