{"id":5630,"date":"2013-02-06T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2013-02-06T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:00:24","slug":"i-still-shave-with-a-straight-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5630","title":{"rendered":"I still shave with a straight razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>though  only when  can afford to spend the time doing it properly. I still have an old Morris Sculptor Edge, but for convenience i also use a rosallini, and Barber Joe uses a Feather from time to time so I might just get one of those. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Jvu1F4f7bdQ\">Here&#8217;s a guy<\/a> who has a pretty good handle on self-shaving. He touches on the most important items: Shave against the grain to get the tightest shave, shave in at least two directions, don&#8217;t talk during the tough spots.<br \/>\nThere are times when I&#8217;m rushed or it&#8217;s early (Damn, morning comes early in the winter, donit?) I have come to use safetyu razors, but there are only a few I really like. My personal favorite is the <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerandblade.com\/gallery\/displayimage.php?imageid=22437\">Bic Metal<\/a>&#8211; it has a metal guide rod and a single blade, and it shaves me about as close as i can with a plain blade.  Problem is, you can&#8217;t buy the damned things anymore- at least not anywhere I shop. So I discovered you could still buy them online and i bought a lifetime supply. Fuckit, when you like something ain&#8217;t no sense changing just for changes sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>though only when can afford to spend the time doing it properly. I still have an old Morris Sculptor Edge, but for convenience i also use a rosallini, and Barber Joe uses a Feather from time to time so I might just get one of those. Here&#8217;s a guy who has a pretty good handle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}