{"id":223,"date":"2005-01-06T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=223"},"modified":"2013-05-01T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:05:46","slug":"signs_of_age_wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/signs_of_age_wh\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Age: White Hairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of interesting how they&#8217;re coming in, my white hairs. The girlfriend&#8217;s noticed them for a year. They really caught my eye in the mirror today. I think the static in the air made them stand out.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as gray hair. It&#8217;s either pigmented or white. It&#8217;s the blending with your natural colour that makes hair appear gray.<\/p>\n<p>I counted: I have about 12 white hairs. I think there were four or five last year. No one tells you they&#8217;re going to come this early. I am 25. I have a couple friends who are balding. If they have white hairs you&#8217;d never know&#8211;they shave their heads.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t look gray yet. No balding as far as I know. I tried to conjure some sort of mid-life emotion, contemplate my mortality, get nostalgic or something. It was an effort with only 12.<\/p>\n<p>For now my 12 white hairs are interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"hair1.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/hair1.gif\" width=\"540\" height=\"95\" \/><br \/>\nMake that 11 white hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of interesting how they&#8217;re coming in, my white hairs. The girlfriend&#8217;s noticed them for a year. They really caught my eye in the mirror today. I think the static in the air made them stand out. There&#8217;s no such thing as gray hair. It&#8217;s either pigmented or white. It&#8217;s the blending with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}