{"id":453,"date":"2007-11-08T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/snip-snip\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:56:59","slug":"snip-snip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/snip-snip\/","title":{"rendered":"Snip, Snip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Today, a haircut. This isn&#8217;t earth-shattering news, but it&#8217;s been a while. A bra-strap length while, actually. Hair with my kind of curl doesn&#8217;t need to go that long, especially since my favorite shoes are a variety of Birkenstock&#8211;Tatamis, the cute ones, but Birkenstock nonetheless. Add the streaky going-back-to-natural hair, and you have a recipe for granola girl, which is <span>so<\/span> not me. As I told Maria, I&#8217;m one Stevie Nicks handkerchief hemline away from a walking clich\u00e9. Yipes.<\/p>\n<p>Maria gets aggressive with the shears. Lo and behold, shape! Lightness! Joy! The gel she tries is all-natural and yummy smelling (pineapple or papaya or some such tropicalness). Unfortch, my hair is now crunchy. Crunchy is good if you&#8217;re talking potato chips, but not Botticelli-style curls. Can&#8217;t wait to shampoo this out, condition the daylights out of it, and see what it does on its own.<\/p>\n<p>She did notice the color, or lack thereof. Turns out my natural color is about a tint browner than black. Who knew? I&#8217;ve been some form of medium golden brown for so long, I had no idea it was that different from the heredity. The oxidation from riding around in a convertible with the top down didn&#8217;t help, either. And then there&#8217;s the encroaching silver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Color?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope.&#8221; Either I&#8217;m the bravest 43-year-old I know, or the craziest.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a haircut. This isn&#8217;t earth-shattering news, but it&#8217;s been a while. A bra-strap length while, actually. Hair with my kind of curl doesn&#8217;t need to go that long, especially since my favorite shoes are a variety of Birkenstock&#8211;Tatamis, the cute ones, but Birkenstock nonetheless. Add the streaky going-back-to-natural hair, and you have a recipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-7j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}