{"id":626,"date":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/03\/living-the-dream\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T07:00:00","slug":"living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/03\/living-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top photo is one I discovered <a href=\"\/journal\/2003\/11\/06\/glendale-california-52\/\">back in 2003<\/a>, taken from the World Beard and Moustache Championships.  The bottom photo is from this year&#8217;s incarnation.  I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s more disturbing that Sgt. Pepper and the Monopoly Guy are still parading around looking <i>exactly the same<\/i> or that I recognized them immediately two years later.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2003 World Beard and Moustache Championships\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cnn.net\/cnn\/offbeat\/gallery\/2003\/11\/06\/06.ap.jpg\" width=\"324\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Sgt. Pepper in 2003 (photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">cnn.com<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/service.spiegel.de\/cache\/international\/0,1518,grossbild-499594-377556,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2005 World Beard and Moustache Championships\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/img\/0,1020,499594,00.jpg\" width=\"326\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Sgt. Pepper in 2005 (photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/service.spiegel.de\/\">spiegel.de<\/a>).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top photo is one I discovered back in 2003, taken from the World Beard and Moustache Championships. The bottom photo is from this year&#8217;s incarnation. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s more disturbing that Sgt. Pepper and the Monopoly Guy are still parading around looking exactly the same or that I recognized them immediately two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/03\/living-the-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living the Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}