{"id":22958,"date":"2013-11-20T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=22958"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:47:59","slug":"cowlick-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/cowlick-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowlick, Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one of my old corporate jobs, we wimmins got to talking about hair and I mentioned the super-aggressive <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cowlick\" target=\"_blank\">cowlick <\/a>lurking in my bangs. One of my employees then asked me what a cowlick was and why it was called that.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s when your hair sticks up like a cow licked ya!&#8221; She looked a little dubious. If only this series of photos of a stray cat with its cow friend had existed then to illustrate my point.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23247\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lovemeow.com\/2013\/10\/cat-visits-cow-love-and-affection\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23247\" class=\" wp-image-23247\" alt=\"cowlick\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowlick.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowlick.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowlick-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for source and story.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Check out that tongue &#8212; it&#8217;s obvious why that could cause a problem with one&#8217;s &#8216;do. View the rest of the photos by Yochi Aranov Zwilling <a href=\"http:\/\/lovemeow.com\/2013\/10\/cat-visits-cow-love-and-affection\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see how the cat looks after a thorough cow tonguing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I look if I leave my hair totally untamed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23248\" alt=\"cowed\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowed.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowed.jpg 385w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cowed-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why this conversation has stuck with me for 10 years. The brain works in mysterious ways. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one of my old corporate jobs, we wimmins got to talking about hair and I mentioned the super-aggressive cowlick lurking in my bangs. One of my employees then asked me what a cowlick was and why it was called that.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s when your hair sticks up like a cow licked ya!&#8221; She&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/cowlick-defined\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hair","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23249,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958\/revisions\/23249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}