{"id":8055,"date":"2013-02-15T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:57:55","slug":"beard-exterminators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/beard-exterminators\/","title":{"rendered":"Beard Exterminators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021513_1444_BeardExterm1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most men shave their faces. Matt Siltala put together some interesting pieces of information about the practice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The word &#8216;barbarian&#8217; comes from &#8216;unbarbered&#8217; \u2013 men with beards who did not shave. (Centives commenter\u00a0<cite>jamapa<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/beard-exterminators\/#comment-16720\">writes <\/a>that this is incorrect.)<\/li>\n<li>Alexander the Great required his troops to be clean-shaven so that the enemy couldn&#8217;t grab onto their beards.<\/li>\n<li>In the United States men on average shave 4.6 times a week.<\/li>\n<li>They take about three and a half minutes to shave. This adds up to 38 days of shaving over a lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Across the world 15% of men shave in the shower. The rest shave at the sink.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about beard and mustache records, as well as beard taxes over <a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/lifetime-shaving-adds\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/lifetime-shaving-adds\">Visua.ly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most men shave their faces. Matt Siltala put together some interesting pieces of information about the practice: The word &#8216;barbarian&#8217; comes from &#8216;unbarbered&#8217; \u2013 men with beards who did not shave. (Centives commenter\u00a0jamapa writes that this is incorrect.) Alexander the Great required his troops to be clean-shaven so that the enemy couldn&#8217;t grab onto their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021513_1444_BeardExterm1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}