{"id":28,"date":"2006-02-23T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-12-25T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:30:38","slug":"a-photo-and-a-story-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"A photo and a story (part two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, my goth and my &#8220;act like a ham for the camera&#8221; phase seemed to coincide during my first two years of college or so. There are many, many photos from this period, including some that make me cringe a little bit when I see them. It was during this time that I dyed my hair jet black and let it grow out to about shoulder-length, resulting in some minor questioning from my family and some odd looks (and rather vicious rumors) from people in my small town when I visited home during the holidays and summers.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t seem to recall who took this particular picture, but for some reason it&#8217;s my favorite. It&#8217;s mainly because of the odd perspective, but partially because I&#8217;m not smiling at all, despite the cheesy finger-pointing pose. I was so, so, serious. Oh yeah, and to top it all off, I&#8217;m wearing a Nine Inch Nails t-shirt. Head like a hole, dudes!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"a goth just floated by\" alt=\"a goth just floated by\" src=\"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/images\/20060223_float.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, my goth and my &#8220;act like a ham for the camera&#8221; phase seemed to coincide during my first two years of college or so. There are many, many photos from this period, including some that make me cringe a little bit when I see them. It was during this time that I dyed my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}