{"id":3876,"date":"2009-04-24T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:52:13","slug":"rather-be-dead-then-red-on-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3876","title":{"rendered":"Rather be dead, then red on the head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Scott at Jupiter Salon and after 16 years of being a semi natural redhead, I had him change my hair color. It&#8217;s going to be a transition to get the red out and go back to my natural color, which is anyone&#8217;s guess at this point, but somewhere along the lines of a dirty blonde. <\/p>\n<p>I was getting a massage a few weeks ago when I made the decision. I had five things I wanted to do for my birthday &#8211; have a party, go to Jazz Fest, take a spiritual trip, invite my mother&#8217;s to lunch to thank her for my birth, and do something that I never thought I&#8217;d do. People suggested I jump out of a plane (NO WAY), or get a tattoo, or take singing lessons. <\/p>\n<p>As I was on the massage table and it had just come to me, I told L that I had been thinking about my red hair and how I was brought up in a household of beautiful women &#8211; my mother, my sister, and then sister in laws &#8211; mostly blondes. Blondes blondes blondes. I decided I should be a redhead because I wanted to be unique. I felt my red hair made me special. <\/p>\n<p>I told L, now nearing the 50 year mark, I don&#8217;t think I need red hair to be unique anymore. <\/p>\n<p>She welled up and said she was so proud of me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3877\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=3877\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg?fit=450%2C337\" data-orig-size=\"450,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.7&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EX-S880&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1240496100&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg?fit=450%2C337\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" title=\"a4\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/a4.jpg?w=450 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I digress, look at this cut &#8211; I went in for a change in color and got a fabulous cut as well. I saw a friend later who knows Scott and she said WHERE DID YOU GET THAT GREAT CUT and I said, Jupiter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Scott at Jupiter Salon and after 16 years of being a semi natural redhead, I had him change my hair color. It&#8217;s going to be a transition to get the red out and go back to my natural color, which is anyone&#8217;s guess at this point, but somewhere along the lines of a dirty blonde. I was getting a massage a few weeks ago when I made the decision. I had&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-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-10w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","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=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}