{"id":5508,"date":"2015-12-29T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2015-12-30T03:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:17:41","slug":"january-1926-27-rue-du-fleurus-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/january-1926-27-rue-du-fleurus-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"January, 1926 &#8211; 27, rue du Fleurus, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStop Pussy, stop, stop, stop!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The concierge looked toward the window and just shook his head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/january-1926-27-rue-du-fleurus-paris\/i-wish-they-were-our-aunts-copy-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5520\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/I-wish-they-were-our-aunts.-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"I wish they were our aunts. copy 2\" width=\"232\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose Americans, in the middle of the afternoon! I will wait a few moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alice put down the shears. \u201cI think you look lovely, Lovey. But of course, you looked lovely to me before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHand me the mirror,\u201d Gertrude said quite sternly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/january-1926-27-rue-du-fleurus-paris\/vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5510\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror-600x492.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Vintage-folding-carry-on-makeup-mirror-vanity-mirror-handle-handheld-mirror.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She held the mirror by the handle, looked in it, then turned her head slightly so she could see the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is all gone. Gone, gone, gone and I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alice was already sweeping the amber tresses on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our grandparents\u2019 day, some of this would have been saved to put into lockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Pussy, but it\u2019s the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, just toss it into the trash bin. No need for any reminders of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, we have the architecture of Paris for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a knock on the door. It was the concierge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alice went to the door holding the dustpan full of hair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMademoiselle Toklas, is everything all right? Here is the afternoon mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alice glanced at the dustpan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonsieur Gallant, everything is all right. It is, after all, the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/january-1926-27-rue-du-fleurus-paris\/gertrude-11x17-300dpi-words-flat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5511\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gertrude-11x17-300dpi-words-flat.jpeg\" alt=\"Gertrude 11x17-300dpi-words-flat\" width=\"415\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gertrude-11x17-300dpi-words-flat.jpeg 415w, https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gertrude-11x17-300dpi-words-flat-195x300.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gertrude-11x17-300dpi-words-flat-389x600.jpeg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStop Pussy, stop, stop, stop!\u201d &nbsp; The concierge looked toward the window and just shook his head. \u201cThose Americans, in the middle of the afternoon! I will wait a few moments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}