{"id":164,"date":"2019-12-30T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-12-31T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:39:36","slug":"strand-of-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/2019\/12\/30\/strand-of-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strand of Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though Beck had her own apartment, she would be here most of her time off from work. When she would take a shower, she&#8217;d leave hair on the shower wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the little stuff that drives a person crazy&#8211;pans crashing when I would try to sleep, door slamming late at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she died, I found a red sweater with a Target name tag sticker on it. I pulled the tag off, and I found a strand of hair stuck to the tag. I pulled on the hair and wrapped it around my finger. I sat in my car just looking at the hair, and I cried. I kissed the hair and tucked it into my sun visor clip. The edge of the hair poked on the side. Every morning I looked up at that single strand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some day, the doors will stop slamming. The pans will stop making noise. The hair, that you swore would drive you over the edge of sanity, will be gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I&#8217;m not saying that we let everything slide. I guess just put things into proportion. I still get irritated, but now I think about my reaction and my words.  It&#8217;s a complete understatement to say that I&#8217;m a different person now. I may look the same, but I&#8217;m thinking differently in many ways.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AdobeStock_183072185-1-1024x684.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Beck had her own apartment, she would be here most of her time off from work. When she would take a shower, she&#8217;d leave hair on the shower wall. It&#8217;s the little stuff that drives a person crazy&#8211;pans crashing when I would try to sleep, door slamming late at night. When she died, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/2019\/12\/30\/strand-of-hair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Strand of Hair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-grief-and-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}