{"id":2017,"date":"2009-09-16T03:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2009-09-16T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:35:18","slug":"somethinig-for-the-weekend-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Something for the weekend, sir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hairdressers. Barbers. Places where a chap can get ones hair shortened and not have the wallet lightened by too much<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Usually I get &#8216;done&#8217; by the very attractive Romanian girl who works at Clipper which is next door to New Scotland Yard, but not having any great need (or desire) to be in London, yesterday I tottered in to Witney to find a place to get my barnet done.<\/p>\n<p>Lurking around the corner of one of the town&#8217;s main car parks was just the place. Newish, shiny, clean, light, airy, appointment not necessary, straight in, sit down, get done, get out. Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Except during the usual &#8216;mopping up&#8217; exercise, while the hairdresser person fannies around, removing stray follicles with a pony grooming brush, he asked me if I&#8217;d like to have my eyebrows trimmed.<\/p>\n<p>WTF?<\/p>\n<p>Do I look like a shaggier relative of Milo O&#8217;Shea?<\/p>\n<p>And when did barbers get on to the eyebrow-shortening bandwagon? Where&#8217;s it going to end? What other bits of my bodily hair are up for the chop the next time I sit in the red leather chair?<\/p>\n<p>Scary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hairdressers. Barbers. Places where a chap can get ones hair shortened and not have the wallet lightened by too much Usually I get &#8216;done&#8217; by<\/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-2017","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\/2017","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=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}