{"id":1608,"date":"2013-12-11T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:51:23","slug":"clean-shaven-thomas-i-like-the-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/11\/clean-shaven-thomas-i-like-the-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean-shaven Thomas: \u2018I like the freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1610\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/11\/clean-shaven-thomas-i-like-the-freedom\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1610\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1610\" alt=\"Charles Thomas\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas.png 644w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas-300x222.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas-150x111.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas-400x296.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Charles-Thomas-200x148.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Charles Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Charles Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CThomasABC7\/status\/407533178077712384\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted <\/a>the other day that he\u2019d lost his mustache in a \u201cweekend shaving mishap,\u201d I\u2019ll admit I was skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always known the dapper ABC 7 political reporter to be meticulous about his appearance, so my journalistic instincts \u2014 to say nothing of the public\u2019s right to know \u2014 demanded full disclosure.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, Robert, this <em>was<\/em> a shaving mishap,\u201d Thomas assured me Wednesday.\u00a0\u201cIn the past two weeks, I\u2019ve had at least a dozen guys \u2014 all past or current mustache-wearers \u2014 recall similar trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, so what really happened? Here, in Thomas\u2019 own words, is the rest of story:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1609\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CharlesThomas.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1609\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1609\" alt=\"Charles Thomas (with mustache)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CharlesThomas.png\" width=\"156\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CharlesThomas.png 156w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CharlesThomas-150x252.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Thomas (with mustache)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDuring a previous use of my electric beard and mustache trimmer, I detached the plastic 'guard\u2019 that has always ensured that I didn\u2019t cut the \u2019stache too low. In a fog while getting ready for a November 30th night out with my wife, I forgot to re-attach the plastic and cut off most of one side of my 40-year-old friend. When I cut off an equal section of the other side, the man in the mirror vaguely resembled Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>\"The Nazi dictator look was not an option, so I cut off what was left and used a razor on the stubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that it\u2019s gone, I like the freedom.\u00a0In recent years, I\u2019ve had to color the mustache weekly just to maintain the \u2018salt-and-pepper\u2019 look.\u00a0And I like the comments from some folks who say clean-shaven makes me look younger. At my age, who wouldn\u2019t like that?\"<\/p>\n<p>So what's the future spin, Charles?\u00a0\u201cThe decision for now is<em> not<\/em> to grow it back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Charles Thomas tweeted the other day that he\u2019d lost his mustache in a \u201cweekend shaving mishap,\u201d I\u2019ll admit I was skeptical. I\u2019ve always known the dapper ABC 7 political reporter to be meticulous about his appearance, so my journalistic instincts \u2014 to say nothing of the public\u2019s right to know \u2014 demanded full disclosure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}