{"id":233,"date":"2008-10-17T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:01:50","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl id=\"attachment_232\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232 alignright\" title=\"Me, taking pics on Cascade\" src=\"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/033-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Me, taking pics on Cascade\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/033-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/033-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>When squirrels outnumber sunbathers around campus;<\/p>\n<p>When geese bombard my house with poop;<\/p>\n<p>When my &#8220;neighbor&#8221; blows their leaves into <em>my<\/em> lawn;<\/p>\n<p>It is time to grow my hair out.<\/p>\n<p>It amazes me, annually, how different people treat you when you&#8217;re fuzzy. For me it has nothing to do with &#8220;hippy&#8221; and everything to do with &#8220;insulation&#8221;; little to do with &#8220;lazy&#8221; and much more to do with &#8220;preventing frostbite&#8221;. I [try to] get outside quite a bit in the winter. I don&#8217;t <em>enjoy<\/em> it, per se- I hate being cold and would much rather be on a sailboat in the Caribbean- but neither am I going to sit around and whine about the 9 months of winter we have. I choose to live here, and choose to make the most of it. Getting my beard on is just one way of making it a little more tolerable&#8230; Albeit a little more itchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When squirrels outnumber sunbathers around campus; When geese bombard my house with poop; When my &#8220;neighbor&#8221; blows their leaves into my lawn; It is time to grow my hair out. It amazes me, annually, how different people treat you when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/tis-the-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}