{"id":684,"date":"2007-10-16T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/10\/16\/gleaming-streaming-flaxen-waxen\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T20:42:00","slug":"gleaming-streaming-flaxen-waxen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/10\/16\/gleaming-streaming-flaxen-waxen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another round of the hair saga today.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I started paying for my own haircuts, I decided to grow my hair long. It was pretty straight and stringy back then. (First pic) After the car accident, I cut it a little bit shorter, but it didn&#8217;t get far from my collar line, and it filled out a lot. (Second pic).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raininva.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">raininva<\/a> liked short hair on me, so I kept it pretty trim while we were together. (Third pic) This year, though, I figured I&#8217;d enjoy growing it back out to its two-decades-ago length. (Fourth pic, though I have put the beard back on since then)<\/p>\n<p>Reviews have been mixed. Some of my BCT co-workers were unimpressed, but the new hair went over great at Invisifest. It&#8217;s cool at NASA, though with all the military there I think I&#8217;ve got the longest hair on base.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, an acquaintance told me that it looked terrible on me &#8211; it bummed me out a bit. But just today, one of my coworkers told me she loved it, and it was a big improvement over April&#8217;s length.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep it long for now, but there certainly seems to be very little middle ground here!<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/hair-1988.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"1988\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/hair-1997.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"1997\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/hair-2003.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"2003\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/hair-2007.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"2007\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">1988<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">1997<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">2003<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thank you for indulging my little narcisissm moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another round of the hair saga today. Back when I started paying for my own haircuts, I decided to grow my hair long. It was pretty straight and stringy back then. (First pic) After the car accident, I cut it a little bit shorter, but it didn&#8217;t get far from my collar line, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,95,6,13],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-friends","tag-hair","tag-rain","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-b2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}