{"id":2962,"date":"2007-01-30T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:31:07","slug":"right-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/01\/30\/right-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Right at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/Rb7TsLV6VsI\/AAAAAAAAABI\/q_kUNEyu_oU\/s1600-h\/CRW_6965.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CRW_6965.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025686990104450754\" \/><\/a>Here in Crescent City, I noticed that although I&#8217;m still in my winter plumage and my beard is getting quite long, I am not the only one.  Several people have had longer ones.  Today, it seemed like every male face I saw was unshaven.<\/p>\n<p>So, while Mary Ann went into the Post Office to mail off some photos to the editor at Ranger Rick, I did an impromptu survey.  While she was in getting postage, I counted 14 beards vs. 3 clean shaven.  It was up to 12-0 before some younger guys came by.<\/p>\n<p>This part of California almost seceded from the rest of the state back in the 1940&#8217;s, and it shows.  They have their own culture and I&#8217;m quite comfortable here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Crescent City, I noticed that although I&#8217;m still in my winter plumage and my beard is getting quite long, I am not the only one. Several people have had longer ones. Today, it seemed like every male face I saw was unshaven. So, while Mary Ann went into the Post Office to mail&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/01\/30\/right-at-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right at Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CRW_6965.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-LM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}