{"id":5813,"date":"2014-05-01T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:58:49","slug":"so-thats-why-i-quit-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/01\/so-thats-why-i-quit-going\/","title":{"rendered":"So That&#8217;s Why I Quit Going&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Mormon satire site called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebunyion.com\/2014\/04\/28\/lds-church-begins-new-not-even-once-anti-beard-campaign\/\">The Bunyion<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beards_mormon-humor-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5814 aligncenter\" alt=\"beards_mormon-humor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beards_mormon-humor-1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beards_mormon-humor-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beards_mormon-humor-1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, according to the same source: &#8220;Those with beards are 67% less righteous than their clean-shaven counterparts, according to a recent study by BYU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, kids: NOT. EVEN. ONCE.<\/p>\n<p>(An aside: Even though this is obviously meant to be humor, as a bearded man living in Mormon Utah, I&#8217;ve definitely encountered this attitude, up to and including ladies refusing to go out with me in my younger days because of my facial fuzz, and a well-meaning neighbor lecturing my dad on <em>his<\/em> beard until Dad very memorably reminded him that Jesus himself had one, and that many of the church&#8217;s early leaders looked like members of ZZ Top.)<\/p>\n<p>Via the fabulously bearded <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2014\/05\/01\/yes-mormons-can-be-funny\/\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Mormon satire site called &#8220;The Bunyion&#8220;: Bottom line, according to the same source: &#8220;Those with beards are 67% less righteous than their clean-shaven counterparts, according to a recent study by BYU.&#8221; Remember, kids: NOT. EVEN. ONCE. (An aside: Even though this is obviously meant to be humor, as a bearded man living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","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=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}