{"id":6896,"date":"2009-04-13T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:06:11","slug":"this-will-disappoint-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/04\/13\/this-will-disappoint-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"This Will Disappoint Mom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4249,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mulletjunky.com\\\/skullet.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;but it looks like my days of sporting long, flowing locks of beautiful curls may be pretty severely numbered.<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons for this:<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, one of the jobs I&#8217;m working my way through the application process for is in a more conservative atmosphere, and there&#8217;s a strong chance that I&#8217;ll have a better possibility without long hair.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly &#8212; and in some ways, even more importantly &#8212; when Prairie was braiding my hair in the morning on Saturday before I headed off to Norwescon, she paused for a moment. &#8220;Hmmm&#8230;your hair <em>is<\/em> getting pretty thin up here, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a long-standing understanding that while we both like the long hair, I wouldn&#8217;t be able to pull it off forever. With the ever-receding hairline that Hanscom men are blessed with (and there&#8217;s no irony in that choice of words: I&#8217;ve always been glad we get the front-to-back hair loss instead of the &#8220;bald spot&#8221; of male pattern baldness), there comes a time when long hair just doesn&#8217;t work. Back on my 30th birthday, when I started growing my hair out again, I made Prairie agree to be sure to tell me when I started getting in real danger of sporting a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulletjunky.com\/skullet.htm\" title=\"Mullet Junky: Skullet\">skullet<\/a>,&#8217; the hairstyle choice of skeezy creeps everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like that time may have come.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not <em>quite<\/em> in to full-on &#8220;DANGER skullet&#8221; territory, but I&#8217;m close, and with the added impetus of putting employment before vanity, it&#8217;s probably only a matter of days or weeks (at the outside) before the curls go away.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not _quite_ in to full-on &#8216;DANGER skullet&#8217; territory, but I&#8217;m close, and with the added impetus of putting employment before vanity, it&#8217;s probably only a matter of days or weeks (at the outside) before the curls go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,13],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","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=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}