{"id":578,"date":"2004-10-01T00:04:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2004-10-01T00:04:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T00:04:40","slug":"ed_haggar_died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Ed Haggar Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/001385.html\">Virginia Postrel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ed Haggar, who coined the term &#8220;slacks,&#8221; has died. From the Dallas Morning News obit: Mr. Haggar teamed with legendary Dallas advertising pioneer Morris Hite to coin the term &#8220;slacks,&#8221; his son said. Pants were largely known as trousers until then.<br \/>\n&#8220;During the war years, people tried to get more casual during the weekends, during slack time or down time,&#8221; [his son] Eddie Haggar said. &#8220;Dad and Morris Hite&#8230;came up with the name slacks.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Background: <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22ed+haggar%22\" TITLE=\"Clusty Search\">Clusty<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=%22ed+haggar%22&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Google<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=%22ed+haggar%22&#038;qcat=1&#038;qsrc=0&#038;Search.x=0&#038;Search.y=0&#038;Search=submit\">Teoma<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&#038;fr=sfp&#038;p=%22ed+haggar%22\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel: Ed Haggar, who coined the term &#8220;slacks,&#8221; has died. From the Dallas Morning News obit: Mr. Haggar teamed with legendary Dallas advertising pioneer Morris Hite to coin the term &#8220;slacks,&#8221; his son said. Pants were largely known as trousers until then. &#8220;During the war years, people tried to get more casual during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}