{"id":50308,"date":"2013-08-07T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T00:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50308"},"modified":"2013-08-07T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T00:45:39","slug":"without-the-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50308","title":{"rendered":"Without The Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You look so different,&#8221; she said. &#8220;No more ZZ Top. A new hair cut? You&#8217;re working out? You look cut. Hey, I want you to meet my boyfriend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conversation zigged and zagged. <\/p>\n<p>An hour later as I detailed my latest <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/foupe\">foupe<\/a>, she said, &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t know anything about making people uncomfortable, right Luke?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After dinner, after Grace After Meals, as I walked out knocking over the water, I announced to the table, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say anything inappropriate tonight. The new meds are helping!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I heard as I went through the door was the sound of her laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You look so different,&#8221; she said. &#8220;No more ZZ Top. A new hair cut? You&#8217;re working out? You look cut. Hey, I want you to meet my boyfriend.&#8221; The conversation zigged and zagged. An hour later as I detailed my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50312,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308\/revisions\/50312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}