{"id":3810,"date":"2006-05-15T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/15\/first-time-in-five-years\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:16:54","slug":"first-time-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/15\/first-time-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6532,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/147089650&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190121170019\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/147089650\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 05:26:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 23:11:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 23:11:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Every so often, I get the urge to hack off my face fuzz. Most of the time, I manage to talk myself out of it &#8212; I don&#8217;t really look my age most of the time to begin with (or act it, but that&#8217;s a different matter), and going clean-shaven just makes me look even <em>younger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, every few years I actually get up the nerve to see just how goofy I look without the beard. The last time was five years ago (and no photos exist of that round), so I figured it was finally time to give it another shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/147089650\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/48\/147089650_9cf5868bf9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Me Without Face Fuzz\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>End result &#8212; well, I <em>definitely<\/em> look younger&#8230;the most popular estimate has been somewhere around 20 or 21 (which really isn&#8217;t bad at all for a guy who just turned 33). It&#8217;s hard for me to look at myself without thinking I look goofy this way, but I&#8217;ve been assured that I look fine, and that it&#8217;s probably just me being so unused to looking like this.<\/p>\n<p>I still think that I&#8217;ll be letting the beard grow back in rather than stay like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id= xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa %252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253F artistTerm%253DNitty Gritty Dirt Band, The%2526songTerm=Keep On the Sunny Side%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Keep On the Sunny Side' on the iTMS\">Keep On the Sunny Side<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/ stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid= 1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252F MZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252Fadvanced SearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DNitty Gritty Dirt Band, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The' on the iTMS\">Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type= 3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple. com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search. 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The last time was five years ago (and no photos exist of that round), so I figured it was finally time to give it another shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}