{"id":4149,"date":"2010-10-03T00:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2010-10-03T00:49:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:49:21","slug":"beardtober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4149","title":{"rendered":"Beardtober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My office is sponsoring a contest this month called Beardtober. The premise is simple: the participating guys let their beards grow throughout October, and the best and worst beards at the end win prizes. The entry fees, and the opt-out donation for those who don&#8217;t want to grow, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogelalcove.org\" target=\"_blank\">Vogel Alcove<\/a>, a great organization in Dallas that provides day care to homeless children while their parents work or look for work. <\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m a better candidate for Worst Beard than Best, I signed up and haven&#8217;t shaved since Thursday. I might post pics here, but we have an official <a href=\"http:\/\/occbeardtober.angelfire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Beardtober website<\/a> where you can follow everyone&#8217;s progress. Most of the &#8220;before&#8221; pictures are our company ID pics, some of which are really old. Mine is from 2001, when I still had hair. They gave me 15:1 odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My office is sponsoring a contest this month called Beardtober. The premise is simple: the participating guys let their beards grow throughout October, and the best and worst beards at the end win prizes. The entry fees, and the opt-out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}