{"id":1401,"date":"2008-09-09T06:11:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2008-09-09T06:11:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:11:43","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/09\/dead-ponytail.jpg\" alt=\"Dead, cut off, ponytail\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, I cut my ponytail off. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve had short hair in decades&#8230;.The only question I have is: Why did I wait so long? It&#8217;s a faster prep time in the morning, it&#8217;s cooler temperature-wise, and I&#8217;ll bet the drains won&#8217;t be as prone to clogging in the absence of long hair&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe obvious question is &#8220;why?&#8221; or &#8220;why now?&#8221; The answer is complex, but mostly goes back to an ongoing conversation between my spouse and I. Last Halloween was actually the target, I wanted to get one more stint in as a pirate before I cut my hair. Mission accomplished. However, I had a bad flashback to around a decade or so ago when my spouse asked me to shave my beard off and I complied. When exiting the shearing room, her question was &#8220;When will it grow back?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNot wanting to encounter the same sort of reaction, I waited until I was sure this wasn&#8217;t a casual observation, but something that was considered and serious. To her credit, she didn&#8217;t nag me about it, but she was consistent in her answers when queried. It was then a matter of when, and the hot weekend tipped me over, why wait? There you have it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, if you see me in the future, don&#8217;t be shocked, you&#8217;ve been warned!<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I cut my ponytail off. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve had short hair in decades&#8230;.The only question I have is: Why did I wait so long? It&#8217;s a faster prep time in the morning, it&#8217;s cooler temperature-wise, and I&#8217;ll bet the drains won&#8217;t be as prone to clogging in the absence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[213,210,212,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}