{"id":15523,"date":"2012-09-14T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15523"},"modified":"2012-09-14T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T22:00:40","slug":"dont-be-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dont-be-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5zxeLwUSdk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Ever get hassled for your rock-length hair? I&#8217;m curious to know if anyone ever got hassled for a reverse rock hair length, such as the first generation of punks getting haircuts in the era when long hair became the norm. Did you have a rock-hair advocate?<\/p>\n<p>My Mom was ahead of the curve in the Dry Look movement of the early 1970s, when regular guys first followed the flowing hair fashions established by rock \u2018n rollers and assorted mods and hippies in the 1960s. She was right there alongside Carol Brady in supporting workingmen\u2019s rights to grow their hair to a well-conditioned groovy length. She saw that my hair was kept at least as long as the <em>Rubber Soul<\/em>-era Beatles. Among all the snobbish attitudes my Mom inspired in me and that I still call on in times of trouble, perhaps none matched her attitudes toward hair.<\/p>\n<p><em>His Father\u2019s Mustache<\/em>. <em>Mr. James<\/em>. These are the names of the first \u201chair salons\u201d that my Mom took me to after countless arguments with traditional barbers through my preschool years. There were two barber friends in the family, in particular, who wanted to get a hold of my hair, Elmer and Pat the Barber (he was never referred to simply as \u201cPat\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Elmer, one of my grandfather\u2019s oldest friends, a kindly Italian uncle figure with a ready laugh, would call me over. \u201cLet me see that hair, Jimmy,\u201d he\u2019d say in his gentle voice, as he ran his fingers through it. Then his tone shifted a bit. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you tell your mother to let me give you a real boy\u2019s haircut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPat the Barber,\u201d just as friendly a presence in my grandparents\u2019 neighborhood and the father of boy I\u2019d crawl through dirty factory lots with in the summertime, used to give me the same pitch. I\u2019m a boy, I\u2019m a boy, and my Mom could admit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get hassled for your rock-length hair? I&#8217;m curious to know if anyone ever got hassled for a reverse rock hair length, such as the first generation of punks getting haircuts in the era when long hair became the norm. Did you have a rock-hair advocate? My Mom was ahead of the curve in the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dont-be-cruel\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}