{"id":13555,"date":"2024-12-13T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13555"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:10:27","slug":"theyve-always-been-cool-its-not-a-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/13\/theyve-always-been-cool-its-not-a-fad\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ve always been cool &#8211; it&#8217;s not a fad."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/10\/style\/prince-william-beard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-5eae6b05\">Where Beards Grow, Strong Feelings Follow<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">Whether on Prince William, JD Vance or Jacob Elordi, facial hair gets people talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jacob-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jacob Gallagher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/12\/15\/multimedia\/10PRINCE-WILLIAM-BEARD-01-zfvk\/10PRINCE-WILLIAM-BEARD-01-zfvk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Prince William is seen in profile. He has a scruffy beard and is wearing a suit.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Prince William has had a beard at public appearances in recent weeks.Credit&#8230;Pool photo by Justin Tallis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as beards go, his is more measly than grizzly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past several months, Prince William, the shiny-headed British royal, has been fostering a modest bit of scruff. The heir to the British throne debuted the beard in August, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-ieoY7tvaX\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Instagram post<\/a>&nbsp;congratulating Team Britain on their success at the Olympics. At that time the growth was slight, as if he had forgotten his razor over a long weekend, the strands barely connecting with his sideburns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That version of the Prince\u2019s patchy beard didn\u2019t last. As he told People magazine in November, he shaved at the behest of his daughter, Princess Charlotte, who was reported to have fallen into \u201cfloods of tears\u201d at the sight of her father\u2019s new look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this past week the beard was back \u2014 fuller, if only just so \u2014 as Prince William served Christmas lunch at a charity organization in London and attended the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/10\/style\/prince-william-beard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Where Beards Grow, Strong Feelings Follow Whether on Prince William, JD Vance or Jacob Elordi, facial hair gets people talking. By\u00a0Jacob Gallagher As far as beards go, his is more measly than grizzly. For the past several months, Prince William, the shiny-headed British royal, has been fostering a modest bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}