{"id":549,"date":"2007-03-23T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-12-28T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:06:21","slug":"the-winner-by-a-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/2007\/03\/the-winner-by-a-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winner by a Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/a>The votes are in and the result is decidedly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6inconclusive.<\/p>\n On February 8, I posted two pictures<\/a> of me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one with short and one with long hair and asked readers to vote on which I should keep. I pointed out that my daughter Merav favored the long look while my wife Jody felt I was sexier with short hair. The goal was to grow it until Purim so Merav could dress me up like a girl for the holiday, then decide what to do. A month after the original post appeared here, the Jerusalem Post published<\/a> the article in its Friday edition, both print and online.<\/p>\n As a result of all this exposure, over the course of the last month and a half I have received hundreds of opinions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by email, posted as comments to the blog, and in person – at one point a mini-van literally screeched to a halt in front of me as I was jogging and the driver yelled out “keep it long!”<\/p>\n Despite that dramatic proclamation, the votes were split almost evenly. Here are some of my favorite responses.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n That final point was emphasized this past Shabbat in shul when Jody told me that, when she looked across the mechitza (don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me that she shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be doing that, come on…we all do it), she was just not attracted to the man she found looking back. Well, what choice did I have. Two days later, Dave my haircutter worked his magic and I am once more my true love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paragon.<\/p>\n Here’s the result, a few hours after the haircut:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Thanks to everyone for being so interactive. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the reasons I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been writing This Normal Life<\/a> for nearly five years now. Blogging is not about one-way publishing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the feedback makes all the difference. So please keep on reading\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and writing in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The votes are in and the result is decidedly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6inconclusive. On February 8, I posted two pictures of me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one with short and one with long hair and asked readers to vote on which I should keep. I pointed out that my daughter Merav favored the long look while my wife Jody felt I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnother reader shared that she had experienced something similar. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A few years ago my husband also grew his hair. He also said it was ‘just for Purim.’ Please, make your wife happy. Isn’t it a small price to pay for Shalom Bait?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n