{"id":888,"date":"2008-09-23T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/cowlicks\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:26:14","slug":"cowlicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/cowlicks\/","title":{"rendered":"cowlicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wear a cowlick.  There&#8217;s nothing for it but to grin and bear it.  And try not to be too conscious of the huge gaping forehead it inevitably doesn&#8217;t shadow.  Pa has one.  But he&#8217;s a man and wears Lucky Tiger and can get away with things like cowlicks.  And pompadours.  Me&#8230;I&#8217;m thinking about taking up hats.  Again. Maybe even headscarves.  Zadie Smith pulls them off.  Why can&#8217;t I?  (Please don&#8217;t answer that.)  <\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/buffy-holt-5.jpg' alt='Buffy Holt' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago I never smiled for photos.  I never even sat for them.  As a consequence I have zero images of myself at that age.  Not even in my college yearbook.  And I regret it.  My twenties were about being self-conscious.  My thirties will be about <em>not being anything like that<\/em>.  At all. <\/p>\n<p>No makeup.  No fancy hair part to offset the tongue-print.  No trying to hide my wonky teeth.  (FYI: I&#8217;ve never had a cavity in my life. But my canines are small.  And pointy.  I look like a vampire when I broad-smile. And I don&#8217;t like that.) <\/p>\n<p>The Euro took this photo of me at my brother&#8217;s house in West Virginia.  I don&#8217;t hate it.  And I&#8217;m not ashamed to say that.  When I was twenty, I would have been. <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to start doing this every year.  <\/p>\n<p>Buffy Holt.  Age: I&#8217;d rather not say. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wear a cowlick. There&#8217;s nothing for it but to grin and bear it. And try not to be too conscious of the huge gaping forehead it inevitably doesn&#8217;t shadow. Pa has one. But he&#8217;s a man and wears Lucky Tiger and can get away with things like cowlicks. And pompadours. Me&#8230;I&#8217;m thinking about taking<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}