{"id":2021,"date":"2014-03-03T02:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2014-03-03T02:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:37:50","slug":"beard-transplant-business-is-booming-in-new-york-thanks-to-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/beard-transplant-business-is-booming-in-new-york-thanks-to-hipsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Beard transplant business is booming in New York thanks to Hipsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you aspire to look like a homeless guy but don&#8217;t have the facial hair to pull of the look? If so fear not, NY Cosmetic surgeons are willing to help you for a mere $8,000. Hipsters all around the world rejoice! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facial surgeons with private practices in Manhattan and Florida say they have seen a phenomenal increase in demand in the last five years, and hipsters are leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>No longer the preserve of fishermen or aging academics, beards are the signature look of urbane men in their 20s and 30s who consider themselves witty, creative and politically progressive.<\/p>\n<p>New York surgeons can perform up to three or four procedures a week for $2,000 to more than $8,000 depending on how much hair needs to be transplanted from scalp to cheek.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first saw this article I thought it was a joke which got accidentally released early for April fool&#8217;s day. But unfortunately this is true and that tells us something about these people. They are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for stupid stuff like this but won&#8217;t spare change for an actual homeless guy. If you really want to feel what the homeless feel, try living for a week on the street without your Starbucks or iPad&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>The no of people asking for this procedure have gone up from 10 a YEAR to 5 a WEEK. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href='http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/02\/28\/gullible_hipsters_drive_beard_transpant_craze\/'>The Register<\/a> for the initial story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you aspire to look like a homeless guy but don&#8217;t have the facial hair to pull of the look? If so fear not, NY Cosmetic surgeons are willing to help you for a mere $8,000. Hipsters all around the world rejoice! Facial surgeons with private practices in Manhattan and Florida say they have seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}