{"id":261,"date":"2005-02-01T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=261"},"modified":"2005-02-02T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T23:41:45","slug":"lets-trim-our-hair-according-to-socialist-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/lets-trim-our-hair-according-to-socialist-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Trim Our Hair According to Socialist Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proof that I am not a Communist:<br \/>\nNorth Korea&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottclissold.com\/3D\/INT\/kimjong.htm\">formerly pompadoured leader<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Jong_Il\">Kim Jong Il<\/a> declares war on long hair (on men only). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/wire\/2005\/02\/01\/hair\/index.html\">An AP article on Salon reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the campaign&#8217;s hairdos and don&#8217;ts: Hair must be kept no longer than two inches. The only exception is for older men, who are given an extra four-fifths of an inch to hide baldness.<\/p>\n<p>The dictum claims that long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head. <\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s campaign does not mention any rules for women and gives no explanation as to why their long hair would not result in reduced brain activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last Korean opponent of long hair, the South&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_Chung-hee\">Park Chung-hee<\/a>, managed to hold the hair down for a few years in the 70s, but as the AP story tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPark was murdered by his own spy chief in 1979, and long hair &#8212; dyed in a variety of colors &#8212; is now widely accepted in South Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So hands off the hair there, &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/10\/north_korea_wages_wa.html\">Boing Boing beat AP to the story having a long piece on Jan 10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not a Communist, but I am a member for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/projects\/hair\/hair-club-top.html\">the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists<\/a>. Brain oxygen must be overrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof that I am not a Communist: North Korea&#8217;s formerly pompadoured leader Kim Jong Il declares war on long hair (on men only). An AP article on Salon reports: Among the campaign&#8217;s hairdos and don&#8217;ts: Hair must be kept no longer than two inches. The only exception is for older men, who are given an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}