{"id":585,"date":"2009-12-02T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-12-02T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:09:51","slug":"choose-to-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2009-12-02\/choose-to-shave\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose To Shave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnath.com\/\">Johnathan Nightingale<\/a>, an otherwise upright and honorable man, is leading our world astray. In the name of freedom, adventure, and independence from societal mores, he encourages <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnath.com\/2009\/11\/29\/nsid-2009\/\">NSID: No Shaving in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone has the freedom to shave or not-shave as they see fit, and I would not dare to take away their right. But do not be hoodwinked by this movement! At its core is not fun-loving independence and adventure. Beneath the surface, behind unshaved faces, lies a sinister purpose: to destroy the conventions upon which proper functioning of society is maintained. It may seem at first glance that shaving is merely a choice, an aspect of personal decoration. But looking deeper, we see that decoration is nothing trivial: the word &#8220;decoration&#8221; derives from the Latin &#8220;decorus&#8221;, meaning &#8220;fit&#8221; or &#8220;proper&#8221;. Abstaining from shaving is neither fit nor proper in public society, and those who choose this lifestyle should be shunned. Take a stand for decency, wholesomeness, and civic life, and shave regularly and with passion.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is good. Use it wisely. Choose to shave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnathan Nightingale, an otherwise upright and honorable man, is leading our world astray. In the name of freedom, adventure, and independence from societal mores, he encourages NSID: No Shaving in December. Anyone has the freedom to shave or not-shave as they see fit, and I would not dare to take away their right. But do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[227,225,224,226],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-untagged","tag-freedom","tag-johnath","tag-nsid","tag-shaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}