{"id":304,"date":"2008-06-07T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-06-07T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:50:11","slug":"long-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/06\/07\/long-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Long hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"blog-classphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/blog-classphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/>While digging through my 11+ year old CDROMs looking for old debating pictures, I ran into other pictures that were taken during my student days.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one from 1994. This isn&#8217;t too visible from the picture, but I kept my hair long when I was in my final year in NTU. Not till past the shoulder length sort of thing, but just about long enough to have tied it up using a band.<\/p>\n<p>How did that come about? Well, I figured that since I was in my last year as a student, I&#8217;d better start trying out things I would not be able to effect when I started working proper soon. My Godmum was amused. My mother was less so but she was tolerant enough not to banish me from the house. And I wasn&#8217;t dating anyone that year, so I didn&#8217;t need to impress anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Which is really sort of cute, since that&#8217;s been the only point in my life so far I&#8217;ve kept my hair past the short crop with a partial left side parting. These days, Ling knows I get really uncomfortable when my hair grows long, and it&#8217;ll be a trip to one of those cheapo\/quick-n-dirty 10 minute pseudo-Japanese barbers to cut it short again.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While digging through my 11+ year old CDROMs looking for old debating pictures, I ran into other pictures that were taken during my student days. Here&#8217;s one from 1994. This isn&#8217;t too visible from the picture, but I kept my<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/06\/07\/long-hair\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Long hair<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","tag-ntu","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}