{"id":40841,"date":"2014-01-21T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/the-american-beard.html"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:43:42","slug":"the-american-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/the-american-beard.html","title":{"rendered":"The American Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"
An interesting historical look. I had no idea of some of the social aspects of such "fashion."<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Like so many other things in life, it's amazing the history tied up into seemingly innocuous things. I had no idea there was this much cultural controversy behind beards. I've been sporting facial hair of varying lengths since my mid-20's for the main reason being that I hate shaving. The fact that beards are going through a bit of a revival at the moment is mildly amusing to me, but I've had a hairy face long before this trend came back around.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard<\/a>
\n \u201cWashes and razors for foofoos,” scoffed Walt Whitman. But the story of 19th-century facial hair is more tangled than modern nostalgists may realize.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

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An interesting historical look. I had no idea of some of the social aspects of such "fashion." Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Like so many other things in life, it's amazing the history tied up into seemingly innocuous things. I had no idea there was this much cultural controversy behind beards. I've been sporting facial … Continue reading “The American Beard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129514,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/beards-for-science.html","url_meta":{"origin":40841,"position":0},"title":"Beards … for SCIENCE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Jan-16 3:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Could the next big breakthrough in antibiotics come from beards? 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