{"id":9072,"date":"2018-05-22T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9072"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:21:57","slug":"the-beard-08","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9072","title":{"rendered":"The Beard &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/beard20080826-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9074\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Originally posted on the website <A HREF=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/heronflight\/\" TARGET=\"_BLANK\">Heron Flight<\/A> in 2008)<\/p>\n<p>IN THE DAYS WHEN MEN WERE REAL, and beards were accepted by all, and all wore them (sometimes even the women)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh hell! I forgot what I wanted to say!<\/p>\n<p>My BROTHER and I decided to grow our beards out this year.<\/p>\n<p>I suggested that we not trim them at all.<\/p>\n<p>He countered, &#8220;Unacceptable. Men are no longer real. But let&#8217;s take photos along the way&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So here are mine. (Go tug his whiskers if you want to see his photos.)<\/p>\n<p>Follow these links to see the chronological progression of The Beard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9083\">The Beard in Infancy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9169\">The Mature Beard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9209\">The Beard Cameos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight in 2008) IN THE DAYS WHEN MEN WERE REAL, and beards were accepted by all, and all wore them (sometimes even the women)&#8230; Oh hell! I forgot what I wanted to say! My BROTHER and I decided to grow our beards out this year. I suggested that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=9072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Beard &#8217;08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}