{"id":165,"date":"2005-01-10T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-01-10T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T22:46:54","slug":"out_of_the_car_long_hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/10\/out_of_the_car_long_hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Car, Long Hair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a current wearer of a ponytail that reaches my shoulder blades and the previous owner of a wicked-fine mullet (hey, it was the &#8217;80s and it was cool back then&#8230; really!), I was extremely interested to learn that &#8220;long hair &#8216;consumes a great deal of nutrition&#8217; and could thus rob the brain of energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This little factoid comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4157121.stm\">North Korean media campaign<\/a> called &#8220;Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.&#8221; Funny&#8230; most of the Socialists I knew in college had hair longer than mine. Not only that, but they didn&#8217;t use much product, either. Very untidy. Never seemed to affect their ideological fervor.<\/p>\n<p>Tidiness matters in places other than hair, too. Here&#8217;s another important sartorial tip from Pyongyang: &#8220;No matter how good the clothes, if one does not wear tidy shoes, one&#8217;s personality will be downgraded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Link courtesy of novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/blog.asp\">William Gibson<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a current wearer of a ponytail that reaches my shoulder blades and the previous owner of a wicked-fine mullet (hey, it was the &#8217;80s and it was cool back then&#8230; really!), I was extremely interested to learn that &#8220;long hair &#8216;consumes a great deal of nutrition&#8217; and could thus rob the brain of energy.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}