{"id":3363,"date":"2010-10-23T00:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T04:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2013-04-30T00:40:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T04:40:52","slug":"long-gray-hair-ageism-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/10\/23\/long-gray-hair-ageism-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Long Gray Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Browning poses an excellent question in her <em>New York Times<\/em> essay <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/24\/fashion\/24Mirror.htm\"><em>Why Can\u2019t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair?<\/em><\/a>  Well, I believe they can and should, if they&#8217;re so inclined:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Long Gray Hair<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing in praise of long hair.<br \/>\nIf you think I&#8217;m too old, I don&#8217;t care.<br \/>\nAnd if short is the &#8220;norm&#8221;<br \/>\nAt my age, won&#8217;t conform<br \/>\nTo such ageist opinions. So there!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/April\/hairstyleappreciationday.htm\">Hairstyle Appreciation Day!<\/a> (April 30th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Browning poses an excellent question in her New York Times essay Why Can\u2019t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair? Well, I believe they can and should, if they&#8217;re so inclined: Limerick Ode To Long Gray Hair By Madeleine Begun Kane I&#8217;m writing in praise of long hair. If you think I&#8217;m too old, I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,37,42,1524,68],"tags":[1542,568,2090,1546,567,3615,1544,1547,1545,1543,5012],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20573,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/20573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}