{"id":97,"date":"2010-10-02T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2010-10-02T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:08:00","slug":"i-have-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"I Have Proof …"},"content":{"rendered":"

that having a kid causes gray hair.<\/p>\n

Let me present my case, step by step.<\/p>\n

Let us begin back in the days of yore circa 1988, before L and I had the Son. Here we are with my brother’s two oldest kids:<\/p>\n

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Note the nice dark hair on my head and face. I was Josh’s (the one in my arms) favorite uncle because I was one of the last adults able to lift him up (and because I am his only uncle, but …)<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Then a few years later the Son was born and not much had changed:<\/p>\n

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But note the lightening already starting. (The flowers in front were from one of my clients in celebration of the Son’s birth.)<\/i><\/p>\n

About a year later and look at how the gray side-burns were coming forth:<\/p>\n

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Add another year or so and look at the gray as we played on the floor at mom and dad’s:<\/p>\n

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Add another bit and see how the hair on top is turning gray and starting to thin:<\/p>\n

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I think it was because of all the toys I got to fix. {*grin*}<\/i>

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From there on out it just seems to go faster and faster. Here we all are a few years later:<\/p>\n

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By the time 2000 rolled around, we were still up for a good dress up occasion, but the white was running rampant:<\/p>\n

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Of course, the teen age years were yet to come, and with them came still more white (and the Son got a lot taller!)<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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In the same time frame, here is a better view of the gray taking over. (And no, I don’t know why the Son is pointing at the ceiling.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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I’ll leave you with this shot of me in my office a few years ago. The thing I am holding is an original art creation sold to benefit the local historical society – I called it “Thing-a-ma-boob”.<\/p>\n

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Notice how gray and sparse the hair on top is? I do from time to time. And it sure seems to correspond with having kids. {*grin*}<\/i>

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(I’m kidding of course – the Son had little to do with the changes in my hair.)<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

that having a kid causes gray hair. Let me present my case, step by step. Let us begin back in the days of yore circa 1988, before L and I had the Son. Here we are with my brother’s two oldest kids: Note the nice dark hair on my head and face. I was Josh’s … Continue reading I Have Proof …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,58,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}