{"id":3947,"date":"2012-08-16T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3947"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:30:19","slug":"hair-on-television","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hair-on-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair on Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the soap opera the doctor<br \/>\nexplains to the young woman with cancer<br \/>\nthat each day is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Hair lifts from their heads<br \/>\nlike clouds, like something to eat.<\/p>\n<p>It is the hair of the married couple<br \/>\ngetting in touch with their real feelings for the first time<br \/>\non the talk show,<\/p>\n<p>the hair of young people on the beach<br \/>\ndrinking Cokes and falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>And the man who took the laxative and waters his garden<br \/>\nnext day with the hose wears the hair<\/p>\n<p>so dark and wavy even his grandchildren are amazed,<br \/>\nand the woman who never dreamed minipads<br \/>\ncould be so convenient wears it.<\/p>\n<p>For the hair is changing people\u2019s lives.<br \/>\nIt is growing like wheat above the faces<\/p>\n<p>of game show contestants opening the doors<br \/>\nof new convertibles, of prominent businessmen opening<br \/>\ntheir hearts to Christ, and it is growing<\/p>\n<p>straight back from the foreheads of vitamin experts,<br \/>\ndetergent and dog food experts helping ordinary<br \/>\n housewives discover<\/p>\n<p>how to be healthier, get clothes cleaner, and serve<br \/>\ndog meals they love in the hair.<\/p>\n<p>And over and over on television the housewives,<br \/>\nand the news teams bringing all the news faster<br \/>\nand faster, and the new breed of cops winning the fight<br \/>\nagainst crime, are smiling, pleased to be at their best,<\/p>\n<p>proud to be among the literally millions of Americans<br \/>\n everywhere<br \/>\nwho have tried the hair, compared the hair, and will never<br \/>\n go back<br \/>\nto life before the active, the caring, the successful,<br \/>\n the incredible hair.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3947\" data-postid=\"3947\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3947 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the soap opera the doctor explains to the young woman with cancer that each day is beautiful. Hair lifts from their heads like clouds, like something to eat. It is the hair of the married couple getting in touch with their real feelings for the first time on the talk show, the hair of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3947\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}