{"id":58873,"date":"2025-09-17T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58873"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:05:02","slug":"the-beard-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58873","title":{"rendered":"The beard: Making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The beard is back … or soon will be once I let a few days pass.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The beard has been something I grow and nurture for six months every year during the autumn and winter months. It comes off around first day of spring. I remain clean-shaven for the spring and summer seasons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I suspended the beard this past season, choosing to keep my puss hair-free during the coldest months of the year. It might have been a bit of homage to my bride, Kathy Anne, who fought with me every spring when I announced the beard was coming off. She liked my face when I covered it in hair. I lost her in February 2023 to cancer and this past autumn and winter, I chose to forgo the beard because, well, she wasn’t around to enjoy it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have made a command decision to bring it back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Now, my best friends, those who have known me the longest, tell me — and I cannot prove the veracity of this statement — that they can set their calendar on the basis of my facial appearance. When the stubble appears, they know it’s fall. Or so they tell me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hey, I won’t dispute it. I’ll just go with it and call it good.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The beard is back … or soon will be once I let a few days pass. The beard has been something I grow and nurture for six months every year during the autumn and winter months. It comes off around first day of spring. I remain clean-shaven for the spring and summer seasons. I suspended … Continue reading The beard: Making a comeback<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[9],"tags":[6993,10124,6992],"class_list":["post-58873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-autumnal-equinox","tag-kathy-anne","tag-vernal-equinox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58875,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions\/58875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}