{"id":363503,"date":"2010-02-25T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:00:04","slug":"growing-a-mustache-so-others-can-read-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363503","title":{"rendered":"Growing a mustache so others can read | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/826bostonmoustache.wordpress.com\/participants\/lindsey-p\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/lindsey826.jpg\" alt=\"lindsey826\" title=\"lindsey826\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12132\"\/><\/a>My niece, Lindsey, is weird.<\/p>\n<p>Shocker, I know, given her DNA. But there you go. And to prove my point, here&#8217;s what she&#8217;s doing: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/826bostonmoustache.wordpress.com\/participants\/lindsey-p\/\">she&#8217;s growing a mustache, kinda, for charity.<\/a> She works for a group called 826, which promotes reading and writing for local kids. Lindsey&#8217;s in Boston, and for the month of February <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/826bostonmoustache.wordpress.com\/competition-rules\/\">she&#8217;s somehow going to increase her lip warmer<\/a> to help get money for the program. You can read more about this program on the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.826boston.org\/\">826 main site<\/a>, at <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourlife\/articles\/2007\/10\/20\/sci_fi_on_the_side\/\">Boston.com<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/boston\/life\/35494-choose-your-own-adventure\/\">the Boston Phoenix<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So yes, I&#8217;m using my great and terrible powers of blogging to help a family member. But y&#8217;see, I already have a mustache. This is all I can do. My logic is infallible. And, of course, I&#8217;m all about promoting the hirsute of happiness.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0mobizutYJrv_DKX8u4P0FGRCsY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0mobizutYJrv_DKX8u4P0FGRCsY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0mobizutYJrv_DKX8u4P0FGRCsY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0mobizutYJrv_DKX8u4P0FGRCsY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/ozLPFGG6ISA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/ym2oSzDOlbI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece, Lindsey, is weird. Shocker, I know, given her DNA. But there you go. And to prove my point, here&#8217;s what she&#8217;s doing: she&#8217;s growing a mustache, kinda, for charity. She works for a group called 826, which promotes reading and writing for local kids. Lindsey&#8217;s in Boston, and for the month of February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}