{"id":260,"date":"2009-04-21T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2009-04-21T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T00:05:54","slug":"a-history-of-hair-the-long-and-the-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090421-260.htm","title":{"rendered":"A History of Hair: The Long and the Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many who have known me in my past ten or so years would have a hard time believing that my hair has ever truly been short.  But it has.  I offer you compelling photographic proof:<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"center\">Exhibit A:  I am born bald<\/h6>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-01.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah a few days old--and completely bald\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"center\">Exhibit B:  I am one&#8211;and still bald<\/h6>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-02.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah as a one year old--and still bald\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"center\">Exhibits C and D:  I begin to grow hair in my second and third years of life.<\/h6>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-03.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah at 2--with the beginnings of hair\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-04.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah at 3--she almost has a whole head of hair\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"center\">Exhibit E:  I am bald<\/h6>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-05.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah at 3 1\/2--and completely bald\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My older sister, then almost five, began her haircutting career with a bang. She cut my hair and her own.  No doubt she was excited to debut our &#8216;do&#8217;s at my uncle&#8217;s upcoming wedding (2 weeks away).<\/p>\n<p>We were driven off to the barber&#8217;s to get our first non-Mom cuts.  When we were done, we looked a little better, but still like little boys.  I suppose I was lucky&#8211;at least they could get mine all even.  Anna&#8217;s hair was clipped to about half an inch&#8211;but still had gashes all about.  The only way they could have completely fixed her hair was to shave it all off and start over.<\/p>\n<p>My cousin tells us of looking in her birthday party photos from about 6 months later and asking her mom why there were two little boys at her party with the rest of the girls.  Anna remembers being mortified at having to wear a big floppy bow over her head at my uncle&#8217;s wedding.  I don&#8217;t really remember the event that much.  I guess it wasn&#8217;t that big of a deal to me (or something).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I did get over it eventually&#8211;and my hair did grow back.  It took a year and a half&#8211;but I would look like a girl yet again.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"center\">Exhibit F:  My hair grows back<\/h6>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20090421-06.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah's 5th birthday--she has hair again\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Lest you get the wrong impression about my sister&#8217;s hair-cutting skills, I will clarify.  She and Mom now tie as the most adept hair-cutter&#8217;s in our family.  Both are highly in demand.  I, on the other hand, rank a distant third after almost cutting off my brother John&#8217;s ear (never try to cut the hair of a squirrelly eight year old, no matter how hard he begs).  Now, I can cut a half-way decent crew, and can operate the clippers with no problem&#8211;but it&#8217;s probably just as quick to do it yourself.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many who have known me in my past ten or so years would have a hard time believing that my hair has ever truly been short. But it has. I offer you compelling photographic proof: Exhibit A: I am born bald Exhibit B: I am one&#8211;and still bald Exhibits C and D: I begin to &#8230; <a title=\"A History of Hair: The Long and the Short\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090421-260.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A History of Hair: The Long and the Short<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}