{"id":7055,"date":"2015-04-07T21:46:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2015-04-07T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:46:23","slug":"salt-and-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/i-refuse-to-get-old\/salt-and-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt and pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I&#8217;ve not been able to keep up with the greys. I was plucking them for a good long while but now they are everywhere. Witchy, thick, kinked-up ones and frail, wispy ones you barely notice unless the light hits them the right way. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t keep ripping them out. The ratio won&#8217;t allow it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a normal part of aging but it&#8217;s unsettling, this change. How do they go from dark to light so rapidly? Internet science tells me that they don&#8217;t just <i>turn<\/i> grey, that they grow in that way anew. But I don&#8217;t buy it. It feels like every morning brings a new batch of complete, long, grey hairs. I Where&#8217;s Waldo them in the mirror every day and yank out the unruliest, the ones that give me away. It&#8217;s pointless but I&#8217;m not ready to just let them be yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks I&#8217;ve not been able to keep up with the greys. I was plucking them for a good long while but now they are everywhere. Witchy, thick, kinked-up ones and frail, wispy ones you barely notice unless the light hits them the right way. I can&#8217;t keep ripping them out. The ratio won&#8217;t allow it anymore. I know it&#8217;s a normal part of aging but it&#8217;s unsettling, this change. How do they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[2117,2125],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-refuse-to-get-old","tag-getting-older","tag-grey-hair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1PN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}