{"id":2008,"date":"2010-08-12T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2010-08-12T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:50:17","slug":"why_i_wear_a_beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/12\/why_i_wear_a_beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Wear a Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken a lot of crap over the years for choosing to express my masculine identity via an obvious &#8212; and in these parts, at least, uncommon and frequently mistrusted &#8212; visual signifier, i.e., a beard. As I&#8217;ve discussed before, I&#8217;ve experienced a fair amount of rejection because of it. But more often I&#8217;ve been met with simple puzzlement. Many of my fellow Utahns can&#8217;t conceive of <i>why<\/i> a person would want to have fuzz on their face, and saying that I just want to be myself rarely satisfies their curiosity. Well, now I have something else I can say the next time some well-meaning conformist asks the inevitable:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reason Number Nine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/beard_hide_stuff.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s not enough for you, there are nine more reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggerbetterbeards.org\/\">where that one came from<\/a>. Thanks to my fellow beardite <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/08\/why-you-should-grow-a-giant-beard.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a> for pointing me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken a lot of crap over the years for choosing to express my masculine identity via an obvious &#8212; and in these parts, at least, uncommon and frequently mistrusted &#8212; visual signifier, i.e., a beard. As I&#8217;ve discussed before, I&#8217;ve experienced a fair amount of rejection because of it. But more often I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","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\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}