{"id":3546,"date":"2010-01-01T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2010-01-10T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:03:08","slug":"the-day-of-all-beards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/01\/the-day-of-all-beards\/","title":{"rendered":"The day of all beards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beards, they are amazing, full of surprises, flowering with novelty. Do you want some evidence?<\/p>\n<p>You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3889\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/urdb.org\/Content\/RecordDetail.aspx?id=372&#038;attempt=456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/beard_toothpick.png\" alt=\"2222 toothpicks in a single beard!\" title=\"beard_toothpick\" width=\"146\" height=\"176\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3889\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2222 toothpicks in a single beard!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you feel a pinch, don&#8217;t accuse the beard!<\/p>\n<p>In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in May 2009. The new champion: David Traver.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/best_beard.jpg\" alt=\"best_beard\" title=\"best_beard\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3890\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it a nice beard?<\/p>\n<p>But must must also know when to be serious about beards. This is why &#8220;<em>The Language of the Beard<\/em>&#8220;, published in 1913 in London, presented (and ranked) poets <a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/poets-ranked-by-beard-weight.html\">by the mass of their beard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3891\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/John_Burroughs_beard.jpg\" alt=\"John Burroughs\" title=\"John_Burroughs_beard\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3891\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Burroughs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Burroughs (1837 \u2013 1921)<br \/>\nBeard type: Claus-esque<br \/>\nTypical opus: Waiting<br \/>\nGravity (UPI rating): 43<\/p>\n<p>But I was also mentioned a darker side of beards in our society so afraid of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/2009-11-28\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/74834.strip_.gif\" alt=\"74834.strip\" title=\"74834.strip\" width=\"640\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But some wanted to tell us about the more troubling side of beards in our society now permanently afraid of the possibility of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/2009-11-28\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/74834.strip_.gif\" alt=\"74834.strip\" title=\"74834.strip\" width=\"640\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, there is no surprise in seeing super-heroes (this epitome of the American popular culture) turning to beards (would you recognize them?):<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/vanjamrgan.deviantart.com\/gallery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bearded__Batman_by_Vanjamrgan-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bearded__Batman_by_Vanjamrgan\" title=\"Bearded__Batman_by_Vanjamrgan\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4241\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/vanjamrgan.deviantart.com\/gallery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bearded__Dilbert_by_Vanjamrgan.jpg\" alt=\"Bearded__Dilbert_by_Vanjamrgan\" title=\"Bearded__Dilbert_by_Vanjamrgan\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4242\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, shouldn&#8217;t I mention the attention drawn to facial hair in Mafia Wars (the online game in Facebook)? There, you can collect beards, barber tools, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beards, they are amazing, full of surprises, flowering with novelty. Do you want some evidence? You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks: If you feel a pinch, don&#8217;t accuse the beard! In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,18,41,32,35,1,4],"tags":[497,797],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-culture","category-lists","category-photo","category-sciences","category-uncategorized","category-web","tag-beard","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}