{"id":485,"date":"2005-06-24T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2005-06-24T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T13:01:10","slug":"world-beard-moustache-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/world-beard-moustache-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"World Beard & Moustache Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

…or as it’s known: anti-social gathering of bush-men, academics, nerds, geeks, and pipe smokers. It’s in Berlin, Germany in October!<\/p>\n

Man. There are some fine examples of follicle follies on the web site<\/a>, I give you the current world champion<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nicely done. There’s a certain amount of courage involved in beard growth, and I must say this fella has “the eye of the tiger” so to speak. It’s sort of an obstinate, teeth-gritting sense of non-conformity that must drive these gentlemen to cultivate beards that defy description, style, good sense, and good manners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And there’s going to be a whole city full of these guys, their beards soaking up heroic quantities of beer to later evaporate in the general vicinity of late-night fraulein waitresses. It is sure to bring a tear to her eye. Nothing like stale beard-beer and sausage breath at 3am. Unless the same mouth is also singing beer shanty songs in another language at ear-splitting levels.<\/p>\n

Now that’s a fun night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…or as it’s known: anti-social gathering of bush-men, academics, nerds, geeks, and pipe smokers. It’s in Berlin, Germany in October! Man. There are some fine examples of follicle follies on the web site, I give you the current world champion. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}