{"id":771,"date":"2007-09-24T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/saying-goodbye-to-my-patch-of-goatee\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T20:24:03","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-my-patch-of-goatee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/saying-goodbye-to-my-patch-of-goatee\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to My Patch of Goatee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God knows I tried. But it was time to let go.<\/p>\n<p>After almost three weeks of growing the patch, I finally decided to call it quits. Some people just weren&#8217;t built for facial hair&#8230; This was actually one of my several attempts to try to grow a goatee. All previous attempts failed because it just never grew thick enough. Even after having talked to  a few people who&#8217;s grown them, I still think I wasn&#8217;t getting the thickness needed to have a good patch&#8230; So here&#8217;s the final goodbye and an image for those who never saw it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/powerchu\/1433986291\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1057\/1433986291_7ff9497c96.jpg\" alt=\"A Rare Self Portrait\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God knows I tried. But it was time to let go. After almost three weeks of growing the patch, I finally decided to call it quits. Some people just weren&#8217;t built for facial hair&#8230; This was actually one of my several attempts to try to grow a goatee. All previous attempts failed because it just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/saying-goodbye-to-my-patch-of-goatee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saying Goodbye to My Patch of Goatee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-cr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}