{"id":2698,"date":"2013-09-05T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:24:14","slug":"the-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-boxer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Curbside shirt, &#8220;<a title=\"The Boxer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curbsideclothing.com\/the-boxer-multicolor-on-tan-mens-t-shirt\/\">The Boxer<\/a>&#8220;, brought to us by Dave Koenig, incorporates some interesting traditional tattoos with imagery from 1700&#8217;s\/1800&#8217;s prizefighting.<br \/>\nInteresting fact: a variation of bare-knuckle boxing, the &#8220;Irish Stand Down&#8221; was an early version of the sport that involved literally standing toe-to-toe and trading punches. Another variation went as far as tying the two opponents to one another with a leather strap.<br \/>\nTattoo factoid: The anchor, in traditional sailor tattoo iconography, represents stability. Words and images placed with the anchor are what sailors thought to be the most stable elements in their life. Often &#8220;Mom&#8221; was placed over the anchor instead of the heart.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2699\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curbsideclothing.com\/the-boxer-multicolor-on-tan-mens-t-shirt\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2699\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2699 \" title=\"The Boxer\" alt=\"Fisticuffs and tattoos brought to you by Dave Koenig at Curbside.\" src=\"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/boxer_mens_crew_tan-520x700.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/boxer_mens_crew_tan-520x700.jpg 520w, http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/boxer_mens_crew_tan-761x1024.jpg 761w, http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/boxer_mens_crew_tan-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/boxer_mens_crew_tan.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fisticuffs and tattoos brought to you by Dave Koenig at Curbside.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Curbside shirt, &#8220;The Boxer&#8220;, brought to us by Dave Koenig, incorporates some interesting traditional tattoos with imagery from 1700&#8217;s\/1800&#8217;s prizefighting. Interesting fact: a variation of bare-knuckle boxing, the &#8220;Irish Stand Down&#8221; was an early version of the sport &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-boxer\/\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curbsideclothing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}