{"id":1015,"date":"2010-03-08T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/end-of-an-era\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:43:17","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have several running trends in my life: <\/p>\n

I have never watched Titanic (in fact, of the 10 highest grossing films of all time<\/a>, I have only seen two of them).  I have not thrown up since middle school.  I have only paid to have my hair cut once in the last 8 years (for my wedding 5 years ago).  And, I have not been completely clean shaven since I grew my first goatee in 2001.  Well after last week, only 3 of those trends still stand.<\/p>\n

<\/font>\"2010-02-26<\/a>[Last picture with the scruff]<\/em> <\/p>\n

It all started when I got the itch to change up my facial hair.  I thought Beth would be pleased with this new "edgier" look.  But as you can tell, she was not impressed:<\/p>\n

\"2010-03-02<\/a> <\/p>\n

She was able to convince me that the burnside look went out with with General Ambrose<\/a> in the 1800s.  So I decided to connect with my days out west when I was fighting fire and sawing down trees:<\/p>\n

\"2010-03-02<\/a> <\/p>\n

Again, you can see that Beth was not a fan.<\/p>\n

From here I decided to go with just the standard mustache; however, I looked so much like a child molester that I thought it best not to take pictures\u2026 those are not the kind of images you want floating around cyber space.<\/p>\n

Normally when I decide to change things up, I shave everything except my flavor-saver \/ soul patch.  Something about having just a little tuft of facial hair to remind me I am a man:<\/p>\n

\"Project-BG,<\/a> 
[Picture from 2007 with our good friends Cat and Dave\u2026
whom we are super excited about going to visit this week]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But, for some reason, I decided if I was going to shave, I might as well go all out.  So for the first time in nearly a decade, I shaved every inch of my face:<\/p>\n

\"2010-03-02<\/a> <\/p>\n

Not only does the "baby face" look make me appear younger and fatter, it also is a pain in the butt.  I have to shave every other day and and I am not a fan of that.  One of the main reasons I grew a beard was because I hate shaving so much.<\/p>\n

I doubt this look will last long, but since it is a once in a decade kind of thing, I figured I had better document it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have several running trends in my life: I have never watched Titanic (in fact, of the 10 highest grossing films of all time, I have only seen two of them).  I have not thrown up since middle school.  I have only paid to have my hair cut once in the last 8 years (for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[467,506,507,508,509,505],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-random","tag-altmaiers","tag-beard","tag-facial-hair","tag-goatee","tag-mustache","tag-shaving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}