{"id":486,"date":"2013-09-24T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:45:13","slug":"bald-is-beautiful-for-jim-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/09\/24\/bald-is-beautiful-for-jim-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald is beautiful for Jim Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jim<\/a>

<\/a> Jim Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

On behalf of the \"bald community,\" as Larry David would say, let me officially welcome Jim Williams.<\/p>\n

The veteran news anchor and reporter at WBBM-Channel 2 returned from vacation sporting a surprising new look on the weekend newscasts he anchors with Mai Martinez. He'd shaved his head bald.<\/p>\n

\"It's just time to shake it up a little bit,\" Williams told me Tuesday. \"I\u2019d been thinking about it for a while. I got approval from my fianc\u00e9e and the people at the station, so I decided to go for it. I think it's a contemporary look.\"<\/p>\n

Williams had considered a more elaborate explanation for his change in appearance. \"I was going to say: I\u2019m back at work after a week of vacation and an encounter with Sweeney Todd.\"<\/p>\n

\"Jim<\/a>

Jim Williams (before)<\/p><\/div>\n

But once he assures people that he did it just for fun (\"I'm perfectly healthy,\" he says), reaction is overwhelmingly positive: By midday Tuesday, his Facebook page<\/a> registered 223 \"likes\" and close to 100 favorable comments on his new profile picture.<\/p>\n

Viewers aren't the only ones making an adjustment. \"I\u2019m still getting used to seeing myself in the mirror,\" Williams laughs. \"But I\u2019ll tell you one thing: It\u2019s nice to wake up and not worry about your hair.\"<\/p>\n

A lifelong Chicagoan and onetime press secretary to Mayor Richard M. Daley, Williams, 56, joined CBS 2 in 2002 after working as a correspondent for ABC News and a reporter for Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the \"bald community,\" as Larry David would say, let me officially welcome Jim Williams. The veteran news anchor and reporter at WBBM-Channel 2 returned from vacation sporting a surprising new look on the weekend newscasts he anchors with Mai Martinez. He'd shaved his head bald.<\/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\/486"}],"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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}