{"id":3402,"date":"2014-08-12T07:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:59:11","slug":"blogging-is-like-shaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3402","title":{"rendered":"Blogging is like shaving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emmett<\/a>…If you don\u2019t do it every day you are a bum.<\/p>\n

The family business had an old sign in the office that said the same thing about selling. Dad put it up when I was a kid. It had a line drawing sketch of the sad clown Emmett Kelly, right in the middle like a wanted poster. Sometimes my memory of that sign\u00a0drives\u00a0my need to post on my blogs.<\/p>\n

This is a grey scale sketch of EK Jr. But the effect is the same. Both lonely clowns fully exploited the unshaven look of a sad bum.<\/p>\n

But I am confused these days. The marketing folks seem to think this look is a sign of extreme masculinity, rather than the sad or lazy bum. To me the heavy shadow beard look always reminds me of this picture (and persona).<\/p>\n

I admit that I do wear facial hair from time to time. But not because I want to look like I just swallowed a full bottle of Viagra. Say\u2026 maybe THAT\u2019s why all those young babes follow this 67 year old body around?<\/p>\n

No chance.<\/p>\n

But I can sprout a good beard or a heavy shadow (white) when I want to. It comes in full and dense. I think I have the right gene for growing body hair (but not the head) as I have shaved my face since I was 15.<\/p>\n

I can only have pity for the scraggy\u00a0looking faces that can\u2019t grow a proper beard. These are the faces where you can count every hair at a glance. To me they are wasted effort. They even put them in TV ads, much to my wonder. It just proves good taste or look is a personal opinion.<\/p>\n

Hey look! I have just written a post. I am good for this day. Time for a close shave\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…If you don\u2019t do it every day you are a bum. The family business had an old sign in the office that said the same thing about selling. Dad put it up when I was a kid. It had a line drawing sketch of the sad clown Emmett Kelly, right in the middle like a wanted poster. Sometimes my memory of that sign\u00a0drives\u00a0my need to post on my blogs. This is a grey scale sketch...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}