{"id":2230,"date":"2002-09-20T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2002-09-20T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2002-09-20T18:43:18","slug":"the-follicles-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/20\/the-follicles-follies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Follicles Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw a kid who had made what can only be regarded as a Poor Hairstyle Decision.  (I am qualified to judge, as, alas, I am something of an authority on the subject of Poor Hairstyle Decisions.  You could legitimately refer to me as &#8220;Matthew Baldwin, P.H.D.&#8221;)  The youth possessed exceptionally curly hair, and had some sort of reverse-mohawk thing going.   It looked as if he had let the thing grow into a &#8216;fro of considerable circumference and then shaved it short down the middle, leaving two spheres o&#8217; hair attached to either side of his head.  I dunno what the intended effect was supposed to be, but <i>my<\/i> first impulse was to infiltrate the Death Star and rescue him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw a kid who had made what can only be regarded as a Poor Hairstyle Decision. (I am qualified to judge, as, alas, I am something of an authority on the subject of Poor Hairstyle Decisions. You could legitimately refer to me as &#8220;Matthew Baldwin, P.H.D.&#8221;) The youth possessed exceptionally curly hair, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}