{"id":4081,"date":"2010-07-01T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2010-07-01T22:05:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:05:15","slug":"rockstar-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/rockstar-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if I can cut my own hair?<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"4082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/rockstar-hair\/current_hair\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?fit=480%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix S100FS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277484985&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.011111111111111&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rockstar hair\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?fit=480%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?resize=480%2C480\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rockstar hair\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/current_hair.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Awwwwlright! I&#8217;m like a Korean movie star! (Thanks for the complement, Barbara!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I had mixed feelings about posting this here, but I figured that people might search for &#8220;cutting your own hair&#8221; and want some tips, or just the confidence to get the haircut that they really want to try out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still surprised that there were so many responses to <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/permanent-hair-straightening\/\">my hair straightening post<\/a> from back in 2006, but I&#8217;m really glad that so many people (particularly guys) who were nervous about doing something to their hair were sort of&#8230; empowered.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/permanent-hair-straightening\/#comment-39089\">comment<\/a> from &#8220;pravi&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>hey guys, i thought id pop in and say thanks to nick. IT was freaking annoying (especialliy for a guy) for someone who taking steps into the unknown.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWithout boasting, it has changed my social life and i do get the random person with a request for my number for drinks etc\u2026u get the drift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A great outcome, especially considering <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/permanent-hair-straightening\/#comment-25689\">his original comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AM I MAKING A MISTAKE??AM I GONNA REGRET ALL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cut my hair last week, so friends on facebook and people following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nickonetwenty\">me on twitter<\/a> will have already seen the picture above.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite facebook comment was from Milton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>braveness brings rewards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So true. Accordingly, if you&#8217;ve ended up here because you&#8217;re thinking about trying something new, I say <strong>go for it<\/strong>! It could be a resounding success, and it won&#8217;t be the end of the world if it doesn&#8217;t work out exactly as you&#8217;d hoped.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, my back-up plan was to shave my head&#8230; maybe next time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if I can cut my own hair? Awwwwlright! I&#8217;m like a Korean movie star! (Thanks for the complement, Barbara!) &#8230; To be honest, I had mixed feelings about posting this here, but I figured that people might search for &#8220;cutting your own hair&#8221; and want some tips, or just the confidence to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/rockstar-hair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rockstar hair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-13P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}