{"id":8091,"date":"2011-11-29T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:04:15","slug":"save-or-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/save-or-shave\/","title":{"rendered":"Save or Shave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure many of you know, this past month has been &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.movember.com\/\">Movember<\/a>&#8220;, also known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=No%20Shave%20November\">No Shave November<\/a>&#8220;. It is a month in which guys grow facial hair (the more ridiculous the better), using the excuse that they&#8217;re raising money for prostate cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>Together with a group of guys from the office in San Diego, I have been participating in Movember. Originally, I planned to not shave at all, but after two weeks the beard was itching and driving me crazy, so I trimmed it back to a &#8216;tache and a goatee:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8093\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shaved.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"309\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8094\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/unshaved.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, in the last couple of weeks a handful of friends have said they actually\u00a0<em>like<\/em> my new facial furniture and that I should keep it. Others have said that they <em>hate<\/em> it and that I should get rid of it immediately.<\/p>\n<p>So c&#8217;mon Internet&#8230;which is it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a id=\"pd_a_5710499\"><\/a><div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container5710499\" style=\"\"><\/div><div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/p\/5710499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure many of you know, this past month has been &#8220;Movember&#8220;, also known as &#8220;No Shave November&#8220;. It is a month in which guys grow facial hair (the more ridiculous the better), using the excuse that they&#8217;re raising money for prostate cancer research. Together with a group of guys from the office in San Diego, I have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[645,2969,643,644],"class_list":["post-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-cancer","tag-featured","tag-movember","tag-shaving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56419,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/56419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}