{"id":116,"date":"2017-03-14T05:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T05:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illiteratures.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-03-14T05:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T05:15:46","slug":"and-the-person-in-the-mirror-is-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/14\/and-the-person-in-the-mirror-is-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t lie about it anymore. Those aren&#8217;t blond hairs in my beard &#8211; they are definitely grey &#8211; or at the very least &#8211; white. I have fooled myself long enough and now I have to repair this problem before someone else discovers them. I steal the tweezers from my wife&#8217;s make-up case and start plucking. There are only 5 or 6 (maybe a dozen) hairs that stand out from my plush brown goatee. For each grey (white) hair I pull out, 5 brown hairs are removed accidentally with them. I leave a balding, bleeding patch in the tweezer&#8217;s wake. Perhaps if I shave off my beard I will be able to hide the damage those white hairs have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t lie about it anymore. Those aren&#8217;t blond hairs in my beard &#8211; they are definitely grey &#8211; or at the very least &#8211; white. I have fooled myself long enough and now I have to repair this problem before someone else discovers them. I steal the tweezers from my wife&#8217;s make-up case and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/14\/and-the-person-in-the-mirror-is-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illiteratures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}