{"id":12567,"date":"2018-06-16T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2018-06-16T20:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T19:35:13","slug":"blogathon-16-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 16\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The male condition plus ageing brings strange things to our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-aged spread.<\/p>\n<p>A paunch.<\/p>\n<p>A full-on beer belly.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re lucky, none of these.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re unlucky, all three.<\/p>\n<p>But also the gift of something else.<\/p>\n<p>Hair.<\/p>\n<p>A receding hairline.<\/p>\n<p>A balding spot.<\/p>\n<p>Complete balding.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re unlucky, all three.<\/p>\n<p>But also more hair.<\/p>\n<p>It sprouts.<\/p>\n<p>Nostrils.<\/p>\n<p>Ears.<\/p>\n<p>Bum&#8217;ole.<\/p>\n<p>So we try, some of us anyway, to keep the hairy burden in check.<\/p>\n<p>We trim, we pluck, we shave.<\/p>\n<p>We attempt to keep the hairy menace at bay, but it always returns.<\/p>\n<p>Today I took another regular step in my ongoing forwards\/backwards battle against my fiendish follicles, as they seek their free-range freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Today I visited the barber. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Since March I have been going to a barber in the centre of Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more expensive than the people I&#8217;ve been using in West Bridgford, but unlike the people in West Bridgford the expensive barber in Nottingham knows how to trim, how to shape, and how to get the very best from facial hair.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;new&#8217; barber, though, does more than haircuts and beard-trims.<\/p>\n<p>They also serve&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12568\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12568\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180616_123020-e1529177670241-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Barber of Stellaville\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180616_123020-e1529177670241-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180616_123020-e1529177670241-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180616_123020-e1529177670241-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Barber of Stellaville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026 The male condition plus ageing brings strange things to our bodies. Middle-aged spread. A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}