{"id":12155,"date":"2009-11-24T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/dubious-consolation-for-the-bald\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:40:48","slug":"dubious-consolation-for-the-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/dubious-consolation-for-the-bald\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubious Consolation for the Bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Paul Brunton, who was bald, writes, <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I take comfort in the continental proverb,&quot;A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.&quot; (<em>Notebooks<\/em>, VIII, 202.)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I am not bald and the genetics of my lineage suggest the unlikelihood of my becoming bald. But the occasional dream reveals a subconscious anxiety. In one, I caught a glimpse via an array of mirrors of the beginning of a bald spot on the back of my head. But why should the thought of balding induce anxiety if not because the bald spot is a harbinger of the meatless skull each head is headed for?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Hair today, bone tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Brunton, who was bald, writes, I take comfort in the continental proverb,&quot;A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.&quot; (Notebooks, VIII, 202.) I am not bald and the genetics of my lineage suggest the unlikelihood of my becoming bald. But the occasional dream reveals a subconscious anxiety. In one, I caught a glimpse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/dubious-consolation-for-the-bald\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dubious Consolation for the Bald&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brunton","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}