{"id":729,"date":"2007-08-20T21:46:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T02:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2007-08-20T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T02:46:38","slug":"fare-thee-well-dreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Fare Thee Well, Dreads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that I never wrote a post about actually <em>getting<\/em> dreads, but here&#8217;s my post about getting rid of them. To summarize, and to use one of my friend&#8217;s phrases, taking out dreads hurts like a flaming bitch. I have no idea what that means, I just felt like saying it. Seriously though, it really hurts. It involves a lot of shampoo, conditioner, combs, and a lot of picking apart knots. Some of them have to be cut off. Lots of hair is pulled out in the process. It really hurts.<\/p>\n<p>But nevertheless, my hair is almost dread-free, and no shaving of my scalp was required, as everyone said it would be. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><b>BEFORE<\/b><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2007\/08\/photo-1206.jpg' title='before' rel=\"lightbox\"><img src='http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2007\/08\/photo-1206.thumbnail.jpg' alt='photo-1206.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>AFTER<\/b><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2007\/08\/photo-1213.jpg' title='after' rel=\"lightbox\"><img src='http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2007\/08\/photo-1213.thumbnail.jpg' alt='photo-1213.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The change in the lighting shows how long it took to remove almost all of the dreads. All day. But now I have silky smooth hair again (except for in the back, im still working in that&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that I never wrote a post about actually getting dreads, but here&#8217;s my post about getting rid of them. To summarize, and to use one of my friend&#8217;s phrases, taking out dreads hurts like a flaming bitch. I have no idea what that means, I just felt like saying it. Seriously though, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}