{"id":593,"date":"2012-03-05T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=593"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:44:12","slug":"ct-author-on-beards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/03\/05\/ct-author-on-beards\/","title":{"rendered":"CT author on Beards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/03\/img432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-594\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/03\/img432-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/03\/img432-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/03\/img432-793x1024.jpg 793w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/03\/img432.jpg 1818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Here is a fun little nugget we just acquired by Connecticut author\/bookseller Edwin Valentine Mitchell (1890-1960), published in 1930.\u00a0 &#8220;This year,&#8221; says the dust-jacket blurb, &#8220;may be said to mark the centennial of the beard in the United States.\u00a0 One hundred years ago Joseph Palmer, a friend of Emerson and Bronson Alcott, was flung into jail in Worcester, Massachusetts, as a result of his refusal to shave.\u00a0 To commemorate this event the author has written a history of beards from the earliest times down to the present day, with descriptions of the world&#8217;s most famous beards, real, false, and coloured.\u00a0 Many strange and obscure volumes have been delved into for material, and some strange and amusing anecdotes have been retrieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a fun little nugget we just acquired by Connecticut author\/bookseller Edwin Valentine Mitchell (1890-1960), published in 1930.\u00a0 &#8220;This year,&#8221; says the dust-jacket blurb, &#8220;may be said to mark the centennial of the beard in the United States.\u00a0 One hundred years ago Joseph Palmer, a friend of Emerson and Bronson Alcott, was flung into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}