{"id":19656,"date":"2014-06-23T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19656"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:28:53","slug":"what-if-i-dont-want-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19656","title":{"rendered":"What if I don&#8217;t want a cure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends have been emailing and posting to my FB page the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/20\/can-this-arthritis-drug-cure-baldness.html\" target=\"_blank\">XELJANZ, an arthritis drug<\/a>, cures alopecia. <\/p>\n<p>It made me think back to when I turned the corner on my baldness and accepted it and actually worried that my hair might grow back. <\/p>\n<p>Even now when I see photographs of me with hair and those without, I have a natural fondness for me without. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to lose ten or more pounds, but hair &#8211; nah &#8211; I&#8217;m good. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have worry about how to wear my hair or mess with make-up anymore. I never worry about jumping into a pool. No hair products to buy. No expensive stylists. And in this heat &#8211; having hair &#8211; nah &#8211; I&#8217;m good. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19657\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=19657\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg?fit=720%2C960\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Aminata&amp;#8217;sbday2014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg?fit=640%2C853\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"Aminata&#039;sbday2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg?w=720 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aminatasbday2014.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19658\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=19658\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg?fit=960%2C720\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Aminata&amp;#8217;sBdayPtII(3)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Aminata&#039;sBdayPtII(3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg?w=960 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AminatasBdayPtII3.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends have been emailing and posting to my FB page the news that XELJANZ, an arthritis drug, cures alopecia. It made me think back to when I turned the corner on my baldness and accepted it and actually worried that my hair might grow back. Even now when I see photographs of me with hair and those without, I have a natural fondness for me without. I&#8217;d love to lose ten or more pounds, but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-572","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}